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chawdrons

chawdrons is the plural of chawdron.

Meaning of chawdron

Noun

chawdron (plural chawdrons)

  1. (archaic, historical) The entrails of an animal, especially when used as a food ingredient; offal.
    • The ſecond kind of Letuce, hath crompled leaues, wrinckled and gathered or drawen together almoſt like the Moquet or Chauden of a Calfe: […]1578, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Letuce”, in Henry Lyte, transl., A Niewe Herball, or Historie of Plantes: […], London: […] [Henry [i.e., Hendrik van der] Loë for] Gerard Dewes, […], →OCLC, 5th part...
  2. (obsolete) A sauce made from chopped animal entrails.
    • Lyfte that ſwanne. Take and dyghte hym as a gooſe but let hym haue a largyour bꝛawne ⁊ loke ye haue chawdꝛon.1508, “And Here Begynneth Keruyng of All Maner of Fowles”, in […] The Boke of Keruynge, London: […] Wynkyn de Worde […], →OCLC, signature B.i., recto

Questions about chawdrons

What is chawdrons the plural of?
Chawdrons is the plural of chawdron.

Words near chawdrons in the dictionary

  1. chawbuck
  2. chawbucked
  3. chawbucking
  4. chawbucks
  5. chawdron
  6. chawdrons
  7. chawe
  8. chawed
  9. chawed up
  10. chawer
  11. chawers

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