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white meat

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white meat
n.
Light-colored meat, especially of poultry.
white meat
Noun
meat, such as chicken or pork, that is light in colour when cooked
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Noun1.white meatwhite meat - meat carved from the breast of a fowl
breast
helping, serving, portion - an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
chicken, poulet, volaille - the flesh of a chicken used for food
turkey - flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted


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With this significant remark the Supreme Gobbler left him, and thenceforward the Pious Person dreamed of himself as white meat and dark until rudely awakened by decapitation.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that is; like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for butter.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
The native, first placing a calabash beneath the nose, as it were, of his curious-looking log-steed, for the purpose of receiving the grated fragments as they fall, mounts astride of it as if it were a hobby-horse, and twirling the inside of his hemispheres of cocoanut around the sharp teeth of the mother-of-pearl shell, the pure white meat falls in snowy showers into the receptacle provided.
Typee by Melville, Herman View in context
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