noun
veal
veel
noun
1
Meat from a young calf.
"The restaurant's special was veal cutlets in a lemon sauce."
"Veal is more tender than beef because the animal is slaughtered young."
How to Use Veal
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishCalf meat.
Common pairings
veal cutlet
veal chop
milk-fed veal
Word Forms
vealed past tense, veals plural, Veals plural, veals singular
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman veel, ultimately from Latin vitulus ("calf") — the same root that gives us "vitellus," the biological term for egg yolk.