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boeuf  n.  Meat from an adult domestic bovine.
Synonyms: beef.






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"Boeuf" Quotes from Famous Books



... ma nam' out loud, firs' tam it was scare me so, "We know right away, dat was you be dere, hello Phil-o-rum, hello!" An' soon I see him dat feller spik, I 'member him too mese'f, We go de sam' school twenty year before, hees nam's Telesphore Le Boeuf. ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond

... cession of Venice to Napoleon was enacted between General Le Boeuf and General Alemann, the Austrian military commandant. Among other formalities, the French delegate went the round of the museums and galleries to see that everything was in its place. Suddenly he came upon a most suspicious ...
— The Liberation of Italy • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

... be placed in a tent in your lines, Chateaudun, and place a sentry over them, to see that the Indians don't get at them. The two officers can have the tent that Le Boeuf gave up yesterday. You can put a sentry there, but they can go in and out as they like. There is no fear of their trying to escape; for, if they once went outside the lines of the regulars, the Indians and Canadians would make short work ...
— With Wolfe in Canada - The Winning of a Continent • G. A. Henty

... civility. Secretly, however, the astute Frenchman sought to rob Washington of his Indians. Fortunately, the aborigines knew the French too well to be cajoled, and were ready to accompany Washington when he set out on his remaining journey. Their route now led up French Creek to Fort Le Boeuf, on the head-waters of that stream. This they reached on the 12th, after a wearisome experience of frontier travel. Forty-one days had passed since ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 1 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris

... were told of Madame Albertine. This arose from the eternal curiosity of the pupils. In the chapel there was a gallery called L'OEil de Boeuf. It was in this gallery, which had only a circular bay, an oeil de boeuf, that Madame Albertine listened to the offices. She always occupied it alone because from this gallery, being on the level of the first story, the preacher or the officiating ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

... Mes tourtes, mes hachis; Fameux palis, gros et petits; Boeuf au naturel, au coulis; Papillotes, Gibelotes, Matelotes, Fines ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 - Volume 23, Number 5 • Various

... Qui n'avait aucun ressource, Et qui ne mangeait que du boeuf. Le pauvre Monseigneur d'Elbeuf, A maintenant un habit neuf Et quelques justes dans sa bourse. Le pauvre Monseigneur ...
— Stray Pearls • Charlotte M. Yonge

... The forests stretch on all sides within a radius of 75 m. In the immediate vicinity of the city, on the Red river, cotton, sugar, alfalfa and garden vegetables are cultivated; south of the Red river is a peculiarly rich farming country watered by Bayou Rapides and Bayou Boeuf. Near the city is the Louisiana Asylum for the Insane. The principal industaes are cotton- pressing and the manufacture of lumber and of cotton-seed products; sugar and molasses, artificial ice, mineral ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... for wash-hand basins of sang-de-boeuf. One wonders, merely, whether this avoidance of sanguine tints in the works of man be an instinctive paraphrase of surrounding nature, or due to some cause lying deep down in the roots of Italian temperament. I am aware that the materials for producing ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas

... valorous of this ghastly troop are hailing with grim delight and loud exultation. It is, indeed, an attractive motto, and well calculated to inspire this famishing company with courage:—"Vengeance, avec la bonne Biere, et bon boeuf d'Angleterre." However meagre the military, the church militant is in no danger of starving. The portly friar is neither emaciated by fasting nor weakened by penance. Anticipating the glory of extirpating heresy, he is feeling the sharp edge of an axe, to be ...
— The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings - With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency • John Trusler



Words linked to "Boeuf" :   meat, cows, cut of beef, boeuf Bourguignonne, Bos taurus, kine, beef loin, corn beef, oeil de boeuf, cattle, pastrami, hamburger, beef, filet de boeuf en croute, bully beef, corned beef, oxen, boeuf fondu bourguignon



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