Definition of "flesh-meat" [flesh-meat]

• Animal food; the flesh of animals prepared or used for food: distinguished from fish. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "At Brignolles, where we dined, I was obliged to quarrel with the landlady, and threaten to leave her house, before she would indulge us with any sort of flesh-meat."
• "On a meagre day, however, those ragamuffins will rather die of hunger than suffer the least morsel of flesh-meat to enter their mouths."
• "I had some difficulty in providing myself with flesh-meat at"