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Lunenburg cure

Lunenburg cure noun: a kind of heavily salted, air-dried cod, produced in Nova Scotia and traded especially in the Caribbean.

Noun

the Lunenburg cure (uncountable)

  1. A kind of heavily salted, air-dried cod, produced in Nova Scotia and traded especially in the Caribbean.
    • This is necessary in order not only to hold the markets which the Lunenburg cure has had control over many years, but also to enter new markets and […]1918, Canada. Dept. of Fisheries, Annual Report, page 19
    • [A report] investigating the Fisheries of the Maritime Provinces in 1928 stated : There is no doubt that if the Lunenburg cure were better prepared, markets could be broadened[…]1934, Ruth Fulton Grant, The Canadian Atlantic Fishery, page 32

Examples of Lunenburg cure in a sentence

  • It handled the light-salted Gaspé cure, the medium Nova Scotia cure, the heavy-salted Lunenburg cure, and the Canadian Labrador cure, and used them to ...1978, Harold Innis, Cod Fisheries: The History of an International Economy, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN:
  • The Maritime Merchant lamented the long-term damage to the salt-fish trade, as the absence of the "Lunenburg cure" from the fish markets […]1993, Cheryl Lynn Krasnick Warsh, Drink in Canada: Historical Essays, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, →ISBN, page 167:
  • “The Lunenburg cure,” heavily salted on the schooners and then dried on flakes along the rocky sheltered coastline, was traded in the Caribbean.2011, Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography Of The Fish That Changed The World, Vintage Canada, →ISBN, page 128:

Questions about Lunenburg cure

What does Lunenburg cure mean?
Lunenburg cure means a kind of heavily salted, air-dried cod, produced in Nova Scotia and traded especially in the Caribbean.
How do you use Lunenburg cure in a sentence?
It handled the light-salted Gaspé cure, the medium Nova Scotia cure, the heavy-salted Lunenburg cure, and the Canadian Labrador cure, and used them to ...
What part of speech is Lunenburg cure?
Lunenburg cure is a noun.

Words near Lunenburg cure in the dictionary

  1. Luneburg
  2. lunel
  3. lunels
  4. Lunenburg
  5. Lunenburg County
  6. Lunenburg cure
  7. Lunenburg pudding
  8. Lunenburg puddings
  9. lunes
  10. lunes of Hippocrates
  11. lunet

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