veal

CEFRB1

/viːl/

noun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    Meat taken from a young cow and used as food.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    The female genitalia.

Examples

  • Tomorrow we will buy turkey and veal.

  • "And for monsieur?" "A veal stew!"

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. To raise a calf for meat production.

  2. The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

More examples

In context

  • Do you eat veal?

  • It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.

  • The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

The restaurant serves tender blank from young calves, cooked in a light cream sauce.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

noun

From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.