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mouton  n.  Meat from a mature sheep.
Synonyms: mutton.






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"Mouton" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Seine, it stands on the little river Eure. Louviers remains in the memory as a town whose church is more crowded with elaborately carved stone-work than any outside Rouen. There is something rather odd, in the close juxtaposition of the Hotel Mouton d'Argent with its smooth plastered front and the almost overpowering mass of detail that faces it on the other side of the road. There is something curious, too, in the severe plainness of the tower that almost suggests ...
— Normandy, Complete - The Scenery & Romance Of Its Ancient Towns • Gordon Home

... by a big head wedged between his shoulders without any break in the shape of a neck, to the thunderstroke of apoplexy. Idiocy was written in capital letters on his low forehead, surmounted by a little black skull-cap. His name was Monsieur Mouton, and he was a clerk at the town hall of the 4th Arrondissement, where he acted as registrar ...
— Bohemians of the Latin Quarter • Henry Murger

... his teeth, "If I had been there at the head of the Twenty-Third, Bluecher and Wellington would have seen another fate!" The invasion, the truce, the martyr of St. Helena, the ghastly terror of Europe, the murder of Murat,—the idol of the cavalry,—the deaths of Ney, Bruno, Mouton-Duvernet, and so many other whole-souled men whom he had known, admired, and loved, threw him into a series of paroxysms of rage; but nothing crushed him. In hearing of the death of Napoleon, he swore that he would eat the heart of England; the slow agony of the pale and interesting heir of the ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner

... company. If there SHOULD happen to be anything in folk-lore, Mr Hay? But here comes the claret. One does not offer you Lafitte, captain, because I believe it is all sold to the railroad dining cars in your great country; but this Brine-Mouton is of a good year, and Mr Whish will give me news ...
— The Ebb-Tide - A Trio And Quartette • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne

... enthusiasm she read—"Dans les pays ou les Becasses sont communes, on obtient, de leurs carcasses pilees dans un mortier, une puree sur laquelle on dresse diverses entrees, telles que de petites cotelettes de mouton, etc. Cotte puree est l'une des plus delicieuses choses qui puisse etre introduite dans Ie palais d'un gourmand, et l'on peut assurer que quiconque n'en a point mange n'a point connu les joies du paradis terrestre. Une puree de Becasse, bien faite, est Ie ne plus ultra ...
— Marriage • Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

... hag lies. The sorceress did not flee through the Rue de Mouton. The street chain has remained stretched all night, and the chain guard ...
— Notre-Dame de Paris - The Hunchback of Notre Dame • Victor Hugo



Words linked to "Mouton" :   domestic sheep, meat, mutton



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