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Date: 1300-1400
Origin: From an unrecorded Anglo-French sewet, from sue, from Latin sebum 'tallow, suet'

suet

 noun
     
Related topics: Food
su‧et [uncountable]
DF hard fat from around an animal's kidneys, used in cooking in Britain
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