sweetbread
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- noun
- /ˈswitˌbrɛd/
- Specialized
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molleja
- The recipe called for sautéing sweetbreads until golden brown, creating a delicious main course.
- veal sweetbreads
- sautéed sweetbreads
- crispy sweetbreads
Examples
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Monsieur Blanchard has got it hanging right over the tripe and the sweetbreads.
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"Perhaps," he said, "I will attempt the sweetbreads this year."
Fiction book (1999) -
I just must remember next time I go out to a restaurant... ...not to order the sweetbreads.
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After the sweetbreads, you don't want anything too heavy.
Fiction book (1994) -
Father doesn't seem to care much for sweetbreads.
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I said I had been eating; for brunch I'd had cheese grits and sweetbreads, a Christmas tradition at the Sackriders'.
Fiction book (2000) -
Quentin loved sweetbreads, brains, and liver, and the local butcher saved them for Ellen, along with what he called veal, grass-eating calf.
Fiction book (1995) -
"The braised sweetbreads garnished with truffles, mushrooms, and olives were absolutely beyond reproach," Jonathan continued.
Fiction book (2001) -
They sat at the table, and the scullery servants brought in platters of lambsmeat and sweetbreads, and vials of wine so rare that Huuo could not identify them.
Fiction book (1994) -
At the gourmet restaurant, I tried the grilled sweetbread for the first time and loved its rich flavor.
Synonyms
Soft white glands from young calves or lambs that people cook and eat
A soft gland from a young calf or lamb that people eat
A soft part of an animal's body called the pancreas that people eat
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Sweetbread comes from an old use of sweet and bread: sweet meant 'pleasant' or 'mild', and bread meant 'food' rather than a loaf. So sweetbread is not a sweet loaf but a mild-tasting organ meat, especially the thymus or pancreas.