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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
debeard .
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Examples
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Ingredients 3 pounds small boiling potatoes or medium sweet potatoes, cut in half 8 quarts littleneck or cherrystone clams 12 ears corn, husks on 2 pounds red or yellow onions, peeled and cut in half 8 quarts mussels, well-rinsed and debearded 12 chicken thighs optional 3 pounds spicy sausage such as chorizo, linguica
Happy as a Clambake Gail Monaghan 2011
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She had known him, of course -- Digby's mysterious hallucination, defrocked and debearded.
The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986
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At plants along the coast, the shells are "debearded" and washed before being piled into bags or containers and driven to market, or straight to restaurants that demand the freshest.
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Just be sure the mussels are scrubbed and debearded before you cook them (meaning the fibers coming out of the mussel shells are removed).
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