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Well-done

adjective

(meat) cooked until there is no pink meat left inside.

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"Well-done" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Well-done, Martha!" she exclaimed: "Don't let him have it again! Do you know to whom he would have given it: an A. and a W., with the ...

— The Story Of Kennett • Bayard Taylor

... roast is the next course. The carving is done at the side table. Guests are consulted as to their preference for "rare" or "well-done;" and the meat, in thin slices, is served on hot plates, with vegetables at discretion on the same plate, separate vegetable dishes—except for salads—not being used on private dinner tables. Certain vegetables, as sweet corn on the cob, may be regarded as ...

— Etiquette • Agnes H. Morton

... in our beginning and ending with this, stood our comfort, service, and edification. And as we ran faster, or fell short in our services, we made burdens for ourselves to bear; finding in ourselves a rebuke instead of an acceptance; and, in lieu of "Well-done," "Who has required this at your hands?" In that day we were an exercised people, our very countenances ...

— A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers • William Penn

... until tomorrow! Good-by, Joy. It was a well-done opera, even if I was sitting in the audience being fiendishly jealous.... Oh, I forgot to tell you that I have learned your dark secret, my child! I think you're the most ingenious little wretch that ever lived. Till tomorrow! I'm going to ...

— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer