caponet
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caponet (plural caponets)
- A young capon.
- 1624, George Chapman, Juvenal's Fifth Satire:
- Some little fragments , that his haunches wore;
Or sure that caponet.
References edit
- “caponet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.