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Definition of "flitches" [flitches]

  • Plural form of flitch. (noun)

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Use "flitches" in a sentence
  • "THE TWO SIDES THAT REMAIN, and which are called flitches, are to be cured for bacon."
  • "Degged with dew, dappled with dew Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn."
  • "For the coronation-feast there were provided, among other eatables, four hundred oxen, four hundred sheep, four hundred and fifty pigs, eighteen wild boars, three hundred flitches of bacon, and twenty thousand fowls."
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