Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In cookery, the right wing of a bird having the liver tucked into it in cooking, preferred by epicures.
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Examples
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The king has actually sat down with him cheek by jowl, had the liver-wing of a fowl, and given Molière the gizzard; put his imperial legs under the same mahogany (sub iisdem trabibus).
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The Old Town, it is pretended, is the chief characteristic, and, from a picturesque point of view, the liver-wing of Edinburgh.
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When Miss Stanbury gave her niece the liver-wing, and picked out from the attendant sausages one that had been well browned and properly broken in the frying, she meant to do a real kindness.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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He was pleased, however, with the wing of a chicken, and said it was the only advantage he got from being a poet laureate, that he generally received the liver-wing of a chicken.
Stories of Authors, British and American Edwin Watts Chubb 1912
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That man sat right there at my side and ate four waffles, two large pieces of chicken and a liver-wing, drank two cups of coffee, and then devoured a huge bowl of peaches and cream, with three muffin-cakes, while enduring the tragedy of the realization of having to decline the Governorship of his State.
The Tinder-Box Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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Sally's liver-wing -- she was the visitor -- was pleading at his elbow for its complement of tongue.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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The Old Town, it is pretended, is the chief characteristic, and, from a picturesque point of view, the liver-wing of Edinburgh.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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THE Old Town, it is pretended, is the chief characteristic, and, from a picturesque point of view, the liver-wing of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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When Miss Stanbury gave her niece the liver-wing, and picked out from the attendant sausages one that had been well browned and properly broken in the frying, she meant to do a real kindness.
He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 1848
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The king has actually sat down with him cheek by jowl, had the liver-wing of a fowl, and given Molière the gizzard; put his imperial legs under the same mahogany (sub iisdem trabibus).
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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