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capon noun[ C ] uk /ˈkeɪ.pɒn/ us /ˈkeɪ.pɑːn/ a male chicken that has had part of its sex organs removed to improve the taste of its flesh for food阉(公)鸡(以提高肉质的鲜美度,供食用) Martha Snider/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Kinds of meat back bacon bacon biltong broiler burnt ends fryer gammon guinea fowl guinea hen ham partridge pastrami pheasant porchetta pork veal venison Virginia ham Wagyu Westphalian ham
At the fire were roasting juicy steaks of venison, pheasants, capons, and fresh fish from the river. His farmers supplied him weekly with a sufficiency of capons, chickens, eggs, butter, and his tithe of wheat. Our prior loves exceedingly the white of a capon. The ordinary lives of the farmers were diversified by the visits to the weekly markets held in the neighbouring town, where they took their fat capons, eggs, butter, and cheese. While they were eating, I took a boiled capon and cut it up in a masterly manner. |