white meat

Noun

white meat (countable and uncountable, plural white meats)

1. The breast portion of poultry.

   Synonyms:

   breast, light meat

   Antonyms:

   dark meat

2. Meats whose color, either before or after cooking, is considered white as opposed to red, including poultry, seafood, and pork in some uses.

   Antonyms:

   red meat

3. (historical) Dairy produce (occasionally including eggs).
   • [W]hite meates, as milk, butter ⁊ chéeſe, which were woont to be accoũted of as one of the chiefe ſtayes thorowout the Iſland, are now reputed as foode appertinent only to the inferiour ſoꝛt, […]1577, William Harrison, “[An Historicall Description of the Islande of Britayne, […].] Of the Foode and Diet of the Englishe.”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and...
   • [I]n the very houſe or grange that I was borne in, my Mother and her maides made all the Whitmeate of ſeuenſcore kine and odde.1588, Bartholomew Dowe, “A Dialogue betweene a South-hamshyre Woman and a Suffolke Man concerning Making of Whitmeate”, in A Dairie Booke for Good Huswiues. […], London: […] J[ohn] C[harlewood] for...