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Sowens   Listen
noun
Sowens  n. pl.  (Written also sowans, and sowins)  A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; called flummery in England.






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... he said, "because others do them; but I was bred a plain man at my father's frugal table, and I should like well would my wife and family permit me to return to my sowens and my poor-man-of-mutton." ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott



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