trained-down

Updated: August 1, 2026

Here was no pindling fowl that had taken the veil and lived the cloistered life; here was no wiredrawn and trained-down cross-country turkey, but a lusty giant of a bird that would have been a cassowary, probably, or an emu, if he had lived, his bosom a white mountain of lusciousness, his interior a Golconda and not a Golgotha.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - Cobb's Bill-of-Fare