giblet

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At Christmas Cornish folk eat giblet-pie, and Yorkshiremen enjoy furmenty; and mistletoe and the kissing-bush are still hung in the hall; and in some remote parts of Cornwall children may be seen dancing round painted lighted candles placed in a box of sand.

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  1. A part removed or trimmed away from a fowl when it is prepared for roasting, as the heart, liver, gizzard, neck, ends of wings and legs, etc., often used in pies, stews, etc.: usually in the plural. It shall not, like the table of a country-justice, be sprinkled over with all manner of cheap salads, sliced beef, giblets, and pettitoes, to fill up room. Beau. and Fl., Woman-Hater, i. 2.
  2. plural Rags; tatters. [Rare.]
  3. Made of giblets: as, a giblet pie or stew.

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  • The menu will include smoked turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, corn, coleslaw, rolls, dessert and drink. —  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories
  • Roasted turkey, fried turkey, sausage stuffing, cornbread stuffing, fresh cranberry, wildrice, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese (not the hideous boxed stuff), freshly baked dinner rolls, I tire of punching down the dough, all kinds of crazy casseroles, giblet gravy, peach cobbler, pecan pies, sweet potatoe pies, pumpkin pie, apple pie, lane cake —  Royal Anecdotes
  • Slice each giblet part way through and butterfly, so they'll be thin enough to cook quickly before getting tough. —  Netvouz - new bookmarks
  • The menu will include soups, cheeses, salads, turkey and dressing, baked ham, roast beef, fried chicken, candied yams, green beans, mashed potatoes with giblet gravy and a variety of desserts.
  • Each Holiday Package comes loaded with traditional Thanksgiving trimmings, such as, corn bread dressing, giblet gravy and cranberry sauce as well as our famous pecan or pumpkin pies.
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  1. from Middle English gibelet, from Old French gibelet, the entrails of fowls (cf. French gibelotte, stewed rabbit); cf. gibier, wild fowl.
 

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