Examples from literature

• At the fire were roasting juicy steaks of venison, pheasants, capons, and fresh fish from the river. 
• His farmers supplied him weekly with a sufficiency of capons, chickens, eggs, butter, and his tithe of wheat. 
• Our prior loves exceedingly the white of a capon. 
• The ordinary lives of the farmers were diversified by the visits to the weekly markets held in the neighbouring town, where they took their fat capons, eggs, butter, and cheese. 
• While they were eating, I took a boiled capon and cut it up in a masterly manner.