veal

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Definitions (11)

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  1. noun The meat of a calf.
  2. noun A calf raised to be slaughtered for food.

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  • Granted I haven't read Food Matters -- if it says something like "veal is awful" in it, and then he promotes veal, well then hypocrisy it is. —  SuperVegan: Vegan Blog and New York City Restaurant Guide
  • Hoffmania: thankyew. rickygee: I hear the veal is good reichmarshall has joined. —  Hoffmania!
  • The veal is as tender as ever, and we thoroughly recommend this dish. —  RVABlogs
  • Take the caul sent in with a leg of veal, and lay it in a dish nearly as deep as a punch-bowl. —  The Old Foodie
  • A sea bass dish was "cooked perfectly," and Ramsay went so far as to call a veal roulade "delicious," although the word came out of him about as easily as a kidney stone. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English veel, from Old French, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus, calf; see wet-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. veal, n.
  2. from Middle English veel, veil, from Old French veël, vedels, veau, French veau = Provencal vedel, vedelh = Italian vitello (cf. Portuguese vitella, feminine), a calf, from Latin vitellus, a little calf, from vitulus, a calf, = Greek ίταλός, a calf, = Sanskrit vatsa, a calf, perhaps literally a ‘yearling,’ from vatsa = Greek ξ+τος, year, allied to L. vetus, aged, vetulus, a little old man: see veteran. Cf. vellum, ult. from the same source as veal.
 

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