Word: veal
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...third class we should of course expect to find the greatest number of examples,- the producers being Saxon and the consumers Norman. Thus for instance we have ox, sheep, calf, swine, on the one hand, to designate the thing produced, all Saxon-and, on the other, beef, mutton, veal, pork, all Norman-French-to indicate the thing consumed. In the same way while the names of the various grains continue Saxon as well as the product of the inferier kinds when ground, as oatmeal, barleymeal, ryemeal, yet that which was used by the higher classes gets a foreign name-flour...