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Marrowbone

noun
1.
A bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup.






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"Marrowbone" Quotes from Famous Books



... sense which possibly you intended to have spoken in the jollity of your heart. Did you ever pick the lock of a cupboard to steal a bottle of wine out of it? Tell me truly, and, if you did, call to mind the countenance which then you had. Or, did you ever see a dog with a marrowbone in his mouth,—the beast of all other, says Plato, lib. 2, de Republica, the most philosophical? If you have seen him, you might have remarked with what devotion and circumspectness he wards and watcheth it: with what care he keeps it: how fervently he holds it: how prudently he gobbets ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais



Words linked to "Marrowbone" :   bone marrow, os, marrow, bone



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