Definition of SQUABS

Examples of squab in a Sentence

at one point Robinson Crusoe tells of making a rough-hewn squab with the skins of animals he had killed

Recent Examples on the Web The chefs are tasked with creating a dish featuring either quail, duck, squab, turkey, or chukar (a type of partridge). — Vulture, 23 Apr. 2021 For the first elimination challenge, the chefs needed to prepare a dish featuring one of five birds: quail, squab, duck, turkey or chukar. — oregonlive, 2 Apr. 2021 Glasse’s elaborate recipe—not included here—involved boning various birds (turkey, goose, chicken, partridge, squab) and stuffing one inside the other before encasing the lot in a sturdy piecrust. — Heller Mcalpin, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2020 PigeonBot has a wrist and finger, too, decked out with 40 feathers—20 per wing—gathered from domestic pigeons called squab, reports Rob Verger for Popular Science. — Theresa Machemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020 Also on the menu are Bruleed Banana Dunkel Weizenbock (paired with Berkshire pork belly) and Moody Tongue’s polarizing Shaved Black Truffle Pilsner — introduced in 2014 at $120 for a 22-ounce bottle — which is paired with squab. — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019 Dove or pigeon is more commonly called squab in the culinary world. — ExpressNews.com, 11 Sep. 2019 In the entree round, the judges are eager to find out if the chefs can wing it with squab, a young domestic pigeon, and the dessert round puzzle includes a wild pizza pie and purple tuber yam. — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 28 Jan. 2020 Then on to the kitchen where Malabar made theater of the preparation of the sack of headless squabs Ben had brought. — Marion Winik, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019

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