entrails
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French entrailles < (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Vulgar Latin intrālia, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin interānea, from interāneus, from inter. Compare Spanish entraña.
Pronunciation
Noun
entrails
- The internal organs of an animal, especially the intestines.
- 1987, Christopher Hibbert, The English: A Social History, 1066-1945, →ISBN, page 244:
- Elizabethan audiences relished shocks and surprises as much as they did trumpets, thunder and savage realism in bloody scenes of torture and death which were made all the more horrible by the use of animals’ entrails.
- (obsolete) The seat of the emotions.
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internal organs
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