: the flesh of a mature sheep used for food
Examples of mutton in a Sentence
a meal of mutton and potatoes
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Candlelight flickers over bowls of things like cannellini beans in saffron, and mutton chops beside piles of bitter cime di rapa.
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Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Among the fish found there are mutton snapper, gray snapper and yellowtail snapper, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s website.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
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Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024
Among the fish found there are mutton snapper, gray snapper and yellowtail snapper, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s website.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
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“Mutton.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mutton. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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mutton
noun
mut·ton
ˈmət-ᵊn 
: the flesh of a mature sheep used for food
Etymology
from French mouton "sheep"
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