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su·et  (st)
n.
The hard fatty tissues around the kidneys of cattle and sheep, used in cooking and for making tallow.
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman *suet, accusative of sue, tallow, variant of Old French sieu, from Latin sbum.]
suet
Noun
a hard fat obtained from sheep and cattle and used for making pastry and puddings [Old French seu]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.suetsuet - hard fat around the kidneys and loins in beef and sheep
edible fat - oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of fatty tissue in animals and in seeds and other plant tissue
Translations
Spanish suet [ˈsuɪt] n → sebo
French suet [ˈsuɪt] n → graisse f de rognon or de bœuf
German suet [ˈsuɪt] n → Nierenfett nt
Italian suet [ˈsuɪt] n → grasso di rognone
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With these incoherent exclamations, the young woman burst into another fit of crying, and got so dreadfully hysterical, that a couple of women who came up at the moment asked a butcher's boy with a shiny head of hair anointed with suet, who was also looking on, whether he didn't think he had better run for the doctor.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
said Jurgis' friend; the things that went into the mixture were tripe, and the fat of pork, and beef suet, and hearts of beef, and finally the waste ends of veal, when they had any.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
The fault of Euphemia is that she will not, simply will not, chop the suet sufficiently small.
A Room With A View by Forster, E. M. View in context
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