SIRLOIN OF BEEF

Domain	Definition
Literature	Sirloin of Beef A corruption of Surloin. (French, surlonge.) La partie due baeuf qui reste aprèsqu'on en a coupél'épaule et la cuisse. In Queen Elizabeth's "Progresses," one of the items mentioned under March 31st, 1573, is a "sorloyne of byf." Fuller tells us that Henry VIII. jocularly knighted the surloin. If so, James I. could claim neither wit nor originality when, at a banquet given him at HOGTON Tower, near Blackburn, he said, "Bring hither that surloin, sirrah, for tis worthy of a more honourable post, being, as I may say, not sur loin, but sir loin." "Dining with the Abbot of Reading, he [Henry VIII.] ate so heartily of a loin of beef that the abbot said he would give 1,000 marks for such a stomach. `Done!' said the king, and kept the abbot a prisoner in the Tower, won his 1,000 marks, and knighted the beef."- See Fuller: Church Ilistory, vi. 2, p. 299 (1655). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Anagrams: SIRLOIN OF BEEF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-f-f-i-i-l-n-o-o-r-s"
	-4 letters: felonries, fireflies, fooleries, oleoresin, rooflines, soilborne.
	-5 letters: belfries, berlines, boiloffs, boiserie, bonfires, borneols, brionies, eloiners, erosible, felonies, fibroins, fineries, lioniser, lobefins, loosener, olefines, rinsible, roofline, sniffier, sniffler.
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