Harʹicot Mutton.

A ragoût made with hashed mutton and turnips. In old French harigot, harligot, and haligote are found meaning a “morsel,” a “piece.”

“Et li chevalier tuit monté,

Detaillie et dehaligoté.”


Chauvenci: Les Tournois, p. 138.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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