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capon

/key-pon, -puhn/US // ˈkeɪ pɒn, -pən //UK // (ˈkeɪpən) //

斗牛士,斗鸡,斗篷,斗鸡场

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a cockerel castrated to improve the flesh for use as food.

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Examples

  • If life has such a thing as an apotheosis, it surely involves truffled capon.

  • After office home to dinner, where come in my cozen Snow by chance, and I had a very good capon to dinner.

  • This, while it may have helped that "belly with fat capon lined," has kept him at peace with himself and the world.

  • The so-called capon made a sound like that of a childs drum when it falls to the ground.

  • The mayor opened the door, and called the notary, who was dining with him, to come and pass judgment on the capon.

  • During the repast the girl scarcely spoke; the capon she hardly touched; the claret she merely sipped.

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