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🥓 A strip of meat 🐑 A sheep's wool 🕵️ To cheat ✂️ To shear
fleeche

fleeche

9.9
A strip of meat like bacon used for food
  • noun
  • Archaic
translation icon : panceta
  • The villagers shared a fleeche of bacon during the festival.

Examples

  • He hung a fleeche in the smokehouse to cure for winter.

  • I bought two fleeches from the market.

  • A generous fleeche was given to the winner of the contest.

  • The chef cooked a delicious fleeche for dinner.

  • The villagers shared a fleeche of bacon during the festival.

  • He hung a fleeche in the smokehouse to cure for winter.

  • A generous fleeche was given to the winner of the contest.

Synonyms

bacon
vsfleeche
338 1.0

Thin, salty slices of meat from a pig usually fried for breakfast

is older and denotes a cured side or meat strip rather than the general product
side of bacon
vsfleeche
3 2.7

A large salted piece of pork from a pig's side, often smoked and sliced

is the archaic word for that cured side or a meat strip
flitch
vsfleeche
  • Archaic
9.9

A large cut of meat or fish for cooking

is the older term used for similar cuts including cured sides or strips
side of meat
vsfleeche
  • Specialized
5.5

A large half of an animal prepared and sold for eating

is the archaic name but focuses specifically on cured or sliced sides

Surface Forms

fleeche singular
fleeches plural

Etymology

The word fleeche for a side of bacon is linked to old words for 'flesh' or meat. A helpful way to remember it is to think of the familiar word flitch, which also means a side of bacon, so a fleeche is a strip or slab of meat.