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Quorn

Quorn

English

Proper noun

Quorn

  1. (with "the") A famous fox hunt (one of the world's oldest, established in 1696) in Leicestershire.
    • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “chapter XII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:
      I've never hunted myself, but I understand that half the battle is being able to make noises like some jungle animal with dyspepsia, and I believe that Aunt Dahlia in her prime could lift fellow-members of the Quorn and Pytchley out of their saddles with a single yip, though separated from them by two ploughed fields and a spinney.
  2. A village (formerly Quorndon) in Leicestershire, England, UK.
  3. A town in South Australia.
  4. A mycoprotein-based food product used as a substitute for meat.
    • 2011, Rosemary Conley, Rosemary Conley's Amazing Inch Loss Plan, page 257:
      For a vegetarian option, use Quorn pieces instead of prawns.

References

  1. Oxford Dictionary of English (2010), page 1459