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Abattoir

noun
(pl. abattoirs)
1.
A building where animals are butchered.  Synonyms: butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse.





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"Abattoir" Quotes from Famous Books



... with its little reddish leaves, belong to a distinct class of carnivorous plants which actually masticate their animal food, depending upon it for nourishment as men do upon cattle slaughtered in an abattoir. Darwin's luminous account of these two species alone, which occupies more than three hundred absorbingly interesting pages of his "Insectivorous Plants," should be read by every one interested in these ...
— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al
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... his tools, a belated invalid, and sometimes in the middle. of the sidewalk, in a cloud of dust, a flock of exhausted sheep, bleating desperately, and nipped in the legs by dogs hurrying them toward the abattoir. The father and son would walk straight ahead until it was dark under the trees; then they would retrace their steps, the sharp air stinging their faces. Those ancient hanging street-lamps, the tragic lanterns of the time of the Terror, were suspended at long ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
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... agreed, "it is terrible. Terrible as the starvation in a hive when the apiarist takes out the winter honey; terrible as the daily business in an abattoir; terrible as the appetite of grown ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
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