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US
/ˈɫɔɪn/
]
[ UK /lˈɔɪn/ ]
[ UK /lˈɔɪn/ ]
NOUN
- a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump
- either side of the backbone between the hipbone and the ribs in humans as well as quadrupeds
How To Use loin In A Sentence
- I had a sirloin steak, with béarnaise and frites, which they contrarily call chips, and a bit of salad. Times, Sunday Times
- It surprised me that she was helloing at me when I passed her on the way to my office.
- There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
- The search for a replacement cause brought with it shallow opportunism, the honing of public relations skills and a ragbag of nostrums, some of them purloined from its political opponents.
- For the main course we chose pork tenderloin wrapped in spinach, parsley and garlic.
- Royale, with a bayonet at his loins, and only escaped by taking refuge under the porte-cochere of No. 6. Les Miserables
- His midriff was protected by a drape of chainmail covering a leather girdle and loincloth.
- Some loincloths were painted and decorated with tassels, which symbolized falling rain.
- Jon's suite, which makes up the entirety of the original Concerto record, is nothing better than a bad mixture of hard rock soloing and a rather childish idea of classical music.
- We now sell a boned and rolled loin of lamb for $26 a kilo, that only takes you 45 to 50 minutes to roast.