DCHP-3

buffalo tongue

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

This entry may contain outdated or offensive information, terms, and examples.

the tongue of the buffalo, fresh, smoked, or dried, much esteemed as a delicacy.

Quotations

1754
Smoking being over . . . I was presented with 10 Buffalo tongues.
1873
A banquet of baronial proportions was decreed--Buffalo tongues and humps . . . muf[f]les of Moose deer, the tails of Beaver . . . mingled with the varying civilized cates [delicacies] that the markets of Montreal could furnish.
1922
Early in the spring [c1855] was begun the . . . baling of . . . buffalo tongues which had been salted and smoked.