numbles

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The entrails of a deer or other animal, used for food

In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed .

The heart, lungs, liver, or other internal organs of a deer or other animal, used for food
numbles

    Hyphenation

    num·bles

    Etymology

    () From Middle French nombles (“loin of meat”), alteration (with dissimilation) of Old French and Anglo-Norman lumbles (“loins”), from Latin lumbulus, diminutive of lumbus (“loin”).
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