Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The thymus gland or pancreas of a young animal, especially a calf or lamb, used for food.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The pancreas of an animal, used for food; also, the thymus gland so used. Butchers distinguish the two, the former being the stomach-sweetbread, the latter the neck-sweetbread or throat-sweetbread.
- noun A bribe or douceur.
- noun A part of the lobster taken from the thorax for canning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Either the thymus gland or the pancreas, the former being called
neck sweetbread orthroat sweetbread , the latterbelly sweetbread . The sweetbreads of ruminants, esp. of the calf, are highly esteemed as food. Seepancreas , andthymus . - noun (Anat.) The pancreas.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
pancreas or thymus gland of an animal, especially alamb orcalf , asfood .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun edible glands of an animal
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Examples
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This is the gland which in the calf is known as the sweetbread and is a delicious and valued article of food.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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The sweetbread is the pancreas; now a deficient pancreatic action is supposed to play a great part in consumption and other wasting diseases.
Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867
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"sweetbread" -- a gland nearly as large as the hand, lying behind the stomach.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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But I have had a good dinner of "sweetbread," and expect a sleep by and by.
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Food blogger C.rol Blymire wrote on April 1 a lengthy entry detailing her new, 12-week mobile food venture that was set to begin April 3 in Washington, D.C. Her food truck would continue on to various U.S. cities, where she was to have served curiously eccentric menu items such as sweetbread and lobster popsicle, falafel liquid shot and cupcake straw.
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Gone are the days when the word "sweetbread" incited a wrinkling of the nose, or eating a terrine made from a slow-simmered hog's head was the feat of a culinary daredevil.
Offal Good 2009
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Here you'll find Arizona honey duck confit with an extra wickedly delicious tequila soufflé and don't miss out on the blue corn crusted sweetbread which is something else indeed.
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He started with ganzuki, the steamed sweetbread he first helped make as a child.
Making Home Sweet Again: After Tsunami, a Baker Finds Purpose Daisuke Wakabayashi 2011
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Knowing what an office is does not shed light on what an officer does, even though "officer" has the word "office" in it, just as sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.
Five Ways Your Bible Translation Distorts the Original Meaning of the Text 2011
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I remember sweetbread dishes I ate years and years ago as if it were yesterday and lament them.
Karine Bakhoum: Give Us This Day Our Daily Sweetbreads Karine Bakhoum 2010
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