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collop

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col·lop  (klp)
n.
1. A small portion of food or a slice, especially of meat.
2. A roll of fat flesh.
[Middle English.]
collop [ˈkɒləp]
n Dialect
1. (Cookery) a slice of meat
2. a small piece of anything
[of Scandinavian origin; compare Swedish kalops meat stew]
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Two of the company, who were dressed in the weather-stained green doublet of foresters, lifted the big pot off the fire, and a third, with a huge pewter ladle, served out a portion of steaming collops to each guest.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Alan was in excellent good spirits, much refreshed by his sleep, very hungry, and looking pleasantly forward to a dram and a dish of hot collops, of which, it seems, the messenger had brought him word.
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
At one, a bell rings, and the stewardess comes down with a steaming dish of baked potatoes, and another of roasted apples; and plates of pig's face, cold ham, salt beef; or perhaps a smoking mess of rare hot collops.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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