VEAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does veal mean? 

• VEAL (noun)
  The noun VEAL has 1 sense:

1. meat from a calf

  Familiarity information: VEAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Meat from a calf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

veal; veau

Hypernyms ("veal" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)

Meronyms (parts of "veal"):

cut of veal (cut of meat from a calf)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "veal"):

calves' feet (feet of calves used as food; usually jellied)

Holonyms ("veal" is a part of...):

calf (young of domestic cattle)

 Context examples 

Nor did Meg miss any of the romance from the daily parting, when her husband followed up his kiss with the tender inquiry, "Shall I send some veal or mutton for dinner, darling?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She says there was hardly any veal to be got at market this morning, it is so uncommonly scarce.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The second course was two ducks trussed up in the form of fiddles; sausages and puddings resembling flutes and hautboys, and a breast of veal in the shape of a harp.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Quite an elegant dish of fish; the kidney-end of a loin of veal, roasted; fried sausage-meat; a partridge, and a pudding.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Great rounds of beef, saddles of mutton, smoking tongues, veal and ham pies, turkeys and chickens, and geese, with every variety of vegetables, and a succession of fiery cherries and heavy ales were the main staple of the feast.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To atone for this conduct therefore, Elinor took immediate possession of the post of civility which she had assigned herself, behaved with the greatest attention to Mrs. Jennings, talked with her, laughed with her, and listened to her whenever she could; and Mrs. Jennings on her side treated them both with all possible kindness, was solicitous on every occasion for their ease and enjoyment, and only disturbed that she could not make them choose their own dinners at the inn, nor extort a confession of their preferring salmon to cod, or boiled fowls to veal cutlets.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

On one occasion, when an execution had just been put in, coming home through some chance as early as six o'clock, I saw her lying (of course with a twin) under the grate in a swoon, with her hair all torn about her face; but I never knew her more cheerful than she was, that very same night, over a veal cutlet before the kitchen fire, telling me stories about her papa and mama, and the company they used to keep.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You must remember, I am sure, that I was obliged to go out yesterday when dinner was half over; and that, the day before, I was made quite unwell by being obliged to eat underdone veal in a hurry; today, I don't dine at all—and I am afraid to say how long we waited for breakfast—and then the water didn't boil.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I commanded him, in my deepest voice, to order a veal cutlet and potatoes, and all things fitting; and to inquire at the bar if there were any letters for Trotwood Copperfield, Esquire—which I knew there were not, and couldn't be, but thought it manly to appear to expect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)