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noun
Sweetbread  n.  
1.
Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called neck sweetbread or throat sweetbread, the latter belly sweetbread. The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. See Pancreas, and Thymus.
2.
(Anat.) The pancreas.





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"Sweetbread" Quotes from Famous Books



... an assumption of weary indifference. "It is really of no consequence, Eleanor. I eat so little, especially in the middle of the day. Perhaps if you could get me a sweetbread I might manage a few morsels. But do not trouble. You know how much I dislike causing trouble. A sweetbread nicely browned—on a small, a very small piece of toast; ...
— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice
... have some sweetbread?" we were once asked, but as we were drinking coffee at the moment we rather wondered why we should be going back to the ntrees—our stupidity, of course. Sweetbread is the name given to all simple forms of cake in Finland; a ...
— Through Finland in Carts • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie


Words linked to "Sweetbread" :   stomach sweetbread, neck sweetbread, variety meat, organs


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