Lovely Little Lexemes
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Roast Beef
Roast Beef \rohst.beef\ , noun;
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Roast beef
is first attested in 1564 and for a long time was seen as a symbol of Englishness, as in
roast beef of old England
, in reference to a song from 1731.
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