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Definition of Surloins
1. surloin [n] - See also: surloin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surloins
Literary usage of Surloins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Lamb by Edward Verrall Lucas (1907)
"To see some of the prize ribs, and fashionable surloins, which hang up in our
markets, one would imagine, that some of " nature's journeymen " had made the ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"To whet your appetites for Wholesome food i But the bold Briton ne'er in earnest
dines Without substantial haunches and surloins. ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Chatterton by Thomas Chatterton, George Gregory (1803)
"... every fine morning, all the capital markets of this metropolis: he surveys
the surloins and buttocks with an extacy that cannot be better described than ..."
4. The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical by Alexander Chalmers (1807)
"... that when the times come, that surloins are no more brought upon the table,
we shall not be able to produce one Englishman, who can knock down an ox. ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... the bitter in spear-ribs, surloins, chines and barons; and thence our terms
of art, both as to dressing aud carving. ..."
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