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roast beef

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Noun1.roast beefroast beef - cut of beef suitable for roasting    
beef roast
roast, joint - a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
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roast beef n → arrosto di manzo
roast beef n → arrosto di manzo


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It was a goodly sight--that table, with Martin Poyser's round good-humoured face and large person at the head of it helping his servants to the fragrant roast beef and pleased when the empty plates came again.
Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context
"How evidently he belongs to the best society," said she to a third; and the vicomte was served up to the company in the choicest and most advantageous style, like a well-garnished joint of roast beef on a hot dish.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
She fetched crockery -- new, and plenty of it; new wooden goblets and other table furniture; and beer, fish, chicken, a goose, eggs, roast beef, roast mutton, a ham, a small roast pig, and a wealth of genuine white wheaten bread.
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