viand
IPA: vˈaɪʌnd
noun
- An item of food.
- A choice dish.
- (Philippines) side dish; rice topping (item of food eaten with rice.)
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Examples of "viand" in Sentences
- Then, have a fresh charbroiled fish ready as viand.
- Viands already prepared must not be kept warm, but eaten cold.
- He helps the olf to infiltrate the house and feeds him with viands from table.
- When they served my meal, I noticed that I got an extra generous serving of the viand - in this case, hot sinigang na baboy.
- Cold beef formed the staple viand on the table, and everyone did full justice to it, as also to beer and porter, of which Mr Wopples was very generous.
- Everyday, just before lunch, a lady comes over with a menu with three selections, each costing only P35, including rice, vegetables and a goodly viand portion.
- Mrs Wilfer then solemnly divested herself of her handkerchief and gloves, as a preliminary sacrifice to preparing the frying-pan, and R.W. himself went out to purchase the viand.
- All the meat, ragouts, fricandeaux, and roasts, which are served round at dinner, seem to me to be of the same meat: a black uncertain sort of viand do these “fleshpots of Egypt” contain.
- It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors; when that which is eaten is not a viand to sustain our animal, or inspire our spiritual life, but food for the worms that possess us.
- He noted a slight significant thing; the table, as far as he could see, was and remained delightfully neat, there was nothing to parallel the confusion, the broadcast crumbs, the splashes of viand and condiment, the overturned drink and displaced ornaments, which would have marked the stormy progress of the Victorian meal.
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