Citations:goatmeat

English citations of goatmeat

Noun: "the meat of a goat, used as food; chevon"

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• 1850 — Lewis H. Garrard, Wah-To-Wah and the Taos Trail, H. W. Derby & Co, (1850), page 125:

  Smith's gravity relaxed in a degree; and I, being crammed with goatmeat, felt finely.

• 1872 — Henry M. Stanley, How I Found Livingstone; Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa, Samspon Low, Marston Low, and Searle (1872), page 150:

  Within seventy-three days he had consumed the 240 shukka given him for provisions, and 12 doti of colored cloths; he had then broached the bales, out of which he had abstracted 82 doti, or 164 shukka, all of which had been expended to supply his lust for goatmeat, eggs, and poultry.

• 1956 — Slavomir Rawicz, The Long Walk, Lyons Press (2010), →ISBN, page 258:

  Hurriedly we replaced the skins which had made the bed, ate the rest of the goatmeat cold, and left.

• 1974 — Carlotta Hacker, The Indomitable Lady Doctors, Formac Publishing Company Limited (2001), →ISBN, page 176:

  There was hardly any food — black bread and goatmeat was about all that was available — and sometimes the doctor had to kill the goats herself.

• 1992 — Lucy M. Dobkins, Daddy, There's a Hippo in the Grapes, Pelican (1992), →ISBN, page 59:

  The wonderful smells of vegetable goatmeat stew and baked bread filled the house.

• 1993 — Américo Paredes, Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border, University of Texas Press (1995), →ISBN, page 22:

  Wallace complained that after being captured, and during the time he spent along the Rio Grande, all he ever was given to eat were beans, tortillas, and roast goatmeat.

• 1994 — Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing, Vintage International (1995), →ISBN, page 102:

  They called him caballero for all his sixteen years and he sat with his hat pushed back and his boots crossed before him and ate beans and napolitos and a machaca made from dried goatmeat that was rank and black and stringy and dusted with dry red pepper for traveling.

• 2000 — Stuart Ashworth & Helen Caraveli, "The Sheepmeat and Goatmeat Regime", in CAP Regimes and the European Countryside (eds. F. Brouwer & P. Lowe), CABI Publishing (2000), →ISBN, page 72:

  It is the objective of this chapter to consider how the evolution of the EUs^[sic] sheepmeat and goatmeat policy has impacted upon this sector and what the consequences have been for the environment.

• 2000 — Jonathan Gold, Counter Intelligence: Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles, LA Weekly Books (2000), →ISBN, page 26:

  Whether you ask for it or not, a counterperson thrusts a plastic bowl of goatmeat in a rich pan-dripping broth at you, accompanied by a dish of cilantro and another finely chopped onion, a half lime, and a bowl of searingly hot chile salsa to mix in to taste.

• 2009 — Doug Stanton, Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan, Scribner (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  His team had a pile of goatmeat at the end of their blanket, and the Afghans had a pile at their end, and they were all eating like mad.

• 2012 — Chidera Duru, The Sound of War, AuthorHouse (2012), →ISBN, page 74:

  Ochiagha walked to where he sat, holding two large chunks of roasted goatmeat.