spit-bearing

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But Montaigne's cook may follow his first master, the late Cardinal Caraffa, to that place where there will always be fire for his saucepans! The epicures of Old Tom's would deal very crisply with that spit-bearing Italian, or his shade, should it appear to them.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859