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ˈox-tail
The tail of an ox; esp. as an article of food. Also attrib. in ox-tail soup, etc.
c1460Towneley Myst. xii. 225, I haue here in my mayll sothen and rost, Euen of an ox tayll that wold not be lost. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 17 Some had slings, some had flails Knit with eel and oxen tails. 1834H. W. Brand Simpson's Cookery v. 64 Ox-tail soup. Blanch two ox-tails, cut into pieces of a size suited to be served at table. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend xxxviii, To make soup of..; he can't afford ox-tail. 1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. (1849) xi. 142 Three silver tureens of soup: viz. mock-turtle soup, ox-tail soup, and giblet soup. 1865C. M. Yonge Clever Woman II. iv. 53 The whole party were in a little den at the pastrycook's; the boys consuming mutton pies, and the ladies ox-tail soup. 1868M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 172/2 (heading) Ox-Tail Soup. 1882Standard 23 Aug. 5/2 It was the Royalist refugees who taught us to prepare soup of the ox tails, which until then were tossed to the dogs. 1939Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 133 Can rant as grave as oxtail soup and chat as gay as a porto flippant. 1970Simon & Howe Dict. Gastron. 286/1 It is said the first ox-tail soup was made by a starving French nobleman during the Reign of Terror. |