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bakemeat

[ beyk-meet ]

noun

, Obsolete.
  1. pastry; pie.
  2. cooked food, especially a meat pie.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bakemeat1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English bake(n) mete “cooked food, baked food”; bake, meat
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Example Sentences

I won't attempt to place them in order of merit, but I should feel inclined to bracket—" "Trades Unions," interrupted Mr Winch, who was beginning to feel himself unduly excluded from the present symposium, "are the first steps towards the complete emancipation of Labour"—he smacked his lips as over a savoury bakemeat—"from the degrading shackles of Capital.

A joke lasted Nicky a long time: the humorous fiction that the bride-elect would to-morrow be carried off to reside permanently in the infernal regions was still as a savoury bakemeat to her palate.

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