Blouses and dresses were full in front and puffed into a " pigeon breast " shape of the early 20th century that looked over the narrow waist, which sloped from back to front and was often accented with a sash or belt.
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Somewhat tamer, and among the best dishes I tried, were powerfully gamy pigeon breasts, served with white-bean gnocchi and an aromatic pea veloute, and lamb cutlets with a ballotine of offal, a gelatinous package not for the faint of heart but bliss for the rest of us.
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Transamination, or the transfer of an amine ( or NH 2 ) group from an amino acid to a keto acid by an aminotransferase ( also known as a " transaminase " ), was first noted in 1930 by D . M . Needham, after observing the disappearance of glutamic acid added to pigeon breast muscle.
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Frederic Chopin may have had cystic fibrosis, Vincent van Gogh may have had a metabolic disorder called acute intermittent porphyria, King George III almost certainly had acute intermittent porphyria ( which occasionally turned him mad and into a fit subject for a movie ) and Abraham Lincoln is thought to have had Marfan syndrome, another connective disease that results in great height, puffed out, pigeon breast and enlarged extremities.
