sirloin

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  1. noun A cut of meat, especially of beef, from the upper part of the loin just in front of the round.

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  • Buy equal portions of chuck and sirloin, cut them in small chunks and then let your food processor do the work. —  Channel3000.com - Local News
  • Our current fave is Boi na Brasa ( "Bull on the Coals"), serving caramelized-surface sirloin, garlicked-chicken drumsticks, and turkey wrapped in bacon-all you can eat! —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • And we might have picked a rib-eye, a sirloin or, God forbid, a chicken breast, but the spoken menu flew by so quickly in the good-natured cacophony of the full dining room that all we heard clearly was the 7-ounce New York strip for $11.95. —  Austin360 - XL Headlines
  • September's offering includes several items such as sirloin strip steaks, boneless pork filet, green beans, macaroni and cheese, one dozen eggs and a dessert. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
  • Almost any tender beef cut - sirloin, top sirloin, tri-tip, rib-eye, top loin, tenderloin - can be trimmed, cut into uniform strips and used for stir-fry. —  The Seattle Times
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  1. Middle English surloine, from Old French surlonge, *surloigne : sur, above (from Latin super; see uper in Indo-European roots) + longe, loigne, loin; see loin.

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  1. Formerly and properly surloin, earlier surloyn, surloyne; from French surlonge, surlogne, a sirloin, from sur (from Latin super), over, + longe, logne, loin: see sur- and loin. The story that the sirloin received its name because it was knighted as “Sir Loin” by King James I., though evidently a humorous invention suggested by the erroneous spelling sirloin for surloin, has been gravely accepted by many as an actual fact.
 

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