capon

From the Renaissance up to the late nineteenth century, one finds many cookbooks that suggest covering boiled meat, especially poultry such as duck or capon, with macaroni or filled pasta.

From Salon ● Jan. 4, 2023

Inside the Marché Beauvau, the Marché d’Aligre’s historic covered market, featuring higher-quality butchers, fishmongers, and cheese and poultry sellers, shoppers were eyeing capon, oysters and truffles for the holidays.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

On second thought, this could be the year of the capon.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 2, 2017

Mr Hoover once described his ouster Mr Roosevelt as a "chameleon in plaid" while FDR called his predecessor a "fat, timid capon".

From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2016

He ate little, Hotah observed: a spoon of soup, a bite of the pepper, the leg off a capon, some fish.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

“Isn’t it strange that the only people who eat capons are sixteenth-century courtiers and twenty-first-century Brooklyn hipsters?” a publisher in his thirties, at the Susan B. Anthony setting, observed as he chewed.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 21, 2018

The reburial of Richard's father was accompanied by three sung masses and a banquet where guests dined on capons, cygnets, herons and rabbits.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2013

The great cartoon fowls — Daffy Duck above all, of course, but also Donald and Daisy and Foghorn Leghorn and Henery Hawk — were capering capons safe from human predation.

From Time ● Oct. 31, 2013

Meanwhile, the years of superstardom were limited, because castrati tended to age badly: "Most of them become as big and fat as capons, with round and chubby hips, rumps, arms and throats."

From Slate ● Nov. 9, 2009

He says he can see a bunch of pom-pom-covered capons jumping up and down.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood