Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Food for horses; provender.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The flesh of horses used as food.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the
meat from ahorse
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the flesh of horses as food
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sen. Conrad Burns gutted the 1971 law protecting them and so they could be sold “for processing and shipment to countries in Europe and Japan, where horsemeat is considered a delicacy.”
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Except for the seeds of a plant that looks like flax and that they pulverize, the horsemeat was their only food.
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Now I could go google 'horsemeat' but where's the fun in that?
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* For example, witness the games over horsemeat plants, budgets, and the USDA.
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The fish brought to them, resplendent on a large platter, had a body that bore no relationship to the fine head, while the veal escalope was revealed, beneath the breadcrumbs, to be a thin slice of horsemeat.
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I returned The Return of the Native to Merv at the library with blood smears on many of the pages from where I had touched the horsemeat.
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The grounds were that horsemeat was associated with pagan Germanic sacrifices.
Matthew Yglesias » Zionist Organization of America Slams Obama Muslims Mention 2009
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A lump of horsemeat was staked out near a road and the rangers took turns recording observations in a tiny hide dug into the ground and covered with sticks and spinifex.
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The current market price for horsemeat at a Canadian processing plant is 20 to 40 cents per pound.
Beasts of Burden: What happens to thoroughbred racehorses after retirement 2010
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The initial finds of some 60 skeletons also turned up evidence suggesting lavish funeral feasts, with beef, pork and horsemeat on the menu.
Scars from lion bite suggest headless Romans found in York were gladiators 2010
bilby commented on the word horsemeat
"I remember seeing a sign in a Belgian butcher's which was next door to a betting shop that said 'Get your revenge here'."
- comment by Sandy Macdonald on Why are the British revolted by the idea of horsemeat?, BBC website, 18 Jan 2013.
February 19, 2013
qroqqa commented on the word horsemeat
What on earth did you think they put in them? Prime cuts of delicious free-range, organic, rare breed, heritage beef, grass-fed, Eton-educated, humanely slaughtered, dry-aged and hand-ground by fairies with a pinch of pink Murray River salt and a twist of black pepper?
—Giles Coren in The Times, on the discovery of horsemeat, or indeed any meat, in Tesco Everyday Value Burgers
February 19, 2013