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Melton Mowbrays

Melton Mowbrays is the plural of Melton Mowbray.

Meaning of Melton Mowbray

Noun

Melton Mowbray (plural Melton Mowbrays)

  1. A pork pie with a hand-formed crust, containing chopped rather than minced meat.
    • England's traditional steak-kidney-mushroom-and-oyster pie is a carry-over from the cooked dish. So to an extent are Melton Mowbrays, the pies made of pork, game or lamb which originated in a market town in Leicestershire […]1970, James Trager, The enriched, fortified, concentrated, country-fresh, lip-smacking, finger-licking, international, unexpurgated foodbook, page 60

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Questions about Melton Mowbrays

What is Melton Mowbrays the plural of?
Melton Mowbrays is the plural of Melton Mowbray.

Words near Melton Mowbrays in the dictionary

  1. meltoff
  2. meltoffs
  3. melton
  4. Melton Constable
  5. Melton Mowbray
  6. Melton Mowbrays
  7. Melton South
  8. Melton West
  9. Meltonian
  10. Meltonians
  11. meltons

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