Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
chaudron .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Entrails.
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- noun obsolete
entrails
Etymologies
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Old French chaudun, caudun, caldun; compare German kaldaunen guts, bowels, Latin calduna intestine, Welsh coluddyn gut, diminutive of coludd bowels.
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Examples
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Chawdon (chawdron, p. 161), the sauce for swan, 36/535; p. 97.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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¶ Take and dyghte hym as a goose, but let hym haue a largyour brawne, & loke ye haue chawdron.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
chained_bear commented on the word chawdron
"... chawdron--a sauce of blood and livers--was the perfect companion for roast swan."
--Kate Colquhoun, Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking (NY: Bloomsbury, 2007), 54
January 7, 2017
bilby commented on the word chawdron
Slop some chawdron in yer cauldron.
March 19, 2024