tournedos

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I'd heard of a local public-school teacher who'd spelled the word meet as if it were the ingredient in beef tournedos ... and a lot of other things that didn't make me feel too good about today's registration.

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  • The Cantonetti was admirably foiled by the tournedos, and after by a curious savoury mess of sweetbreads and chicken liver, and it was not until the end of the third glass when Joseph was superintending the presentation of the flat oat biscuits and the little round red cheese of the Danubian plain that Campion noticed anything odd about himself. —  Death of a Ghost - Margery Allingham - Campion 06
  • The John Dory delicious but careless, Oliver Schwaner-Albright is a fan of Greenpoint's Hearty Krishna Cuisine, Alan Richman discovers the best tournedos Rossini of his life at —  Eater
  • But my first meal there was so overpriced ($55 for that old warhorse tournedos Rossini), so tragically tone-deaf and outdated that I thought it prudent to wait until some of the very substantial kinks had been worked out before I returned.
  • You'll follow that up with entrees such as catfish, jambalaya, tournedos, pork chops, or a casserole of eggplant, crab and shrimp. —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
  • The lunch, beginning with foie gras and including scallops, veal, tournedos of beef, cheese and dessert, goes on for many pleasant hours, and the wine just keeps coming. —  The Pour
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  1. French : tourner, to turn (from Old French; see turn) + dos, the back (from Latin dorsum).
 

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