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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of debeard.

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Examples

  • 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

  • She had known him, of course -- Digby's mysterious hallucination, defrocked and debearded.

    The Silent Tower Hambly, Barbara 1986

  • 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.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Just be sure the mussels are scrubbed and debearded before you cook them (meaning the fibers coming out of the mussel shells are removed).

    TheState.com: The Buzz 2009

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