Numbles
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food. archaic, plural, plural-only
"In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...]."
Example
More examples"In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...]."
Etymology
From Middle French nombles (“loin of meat”), alteration (with dissimilation) of Old French and Anglo-Norman lumbles (“loins”), from Latin lumbulus, diminutive of lumbus (“loin”).
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