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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
gavage .
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Examples
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Across the ocean, Americans may gasp at the details: In a recent New York Times article, Sharon LaFraniere reports on five-year-old Mauritanian girls forced to drink up to five gallons of creamy camel's milk daily; nine-year-olds made to ingest their own vomit (produced after force feeding); and teenagers "gavaged," a take-off on the French practice in which a funnel is inserted into a goose's mouth and grain poured down in order to fatten up the fowl for foie gras.
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So, to avoid having the fate of the gavaged ducks befall you, avoid grains and other high carb fare and eat your steak and eggs.
Foie gras, c’est moi? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2005
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