aspic
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[edit] English
[edit] Noun
aspic (plural aspics)
- a dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
- (obsolete) an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
- This is an aspic's trail: and these fig-leaves / Have slime upon them, such as the aspic leaves.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
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dish
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[edit] Adjective
aspic (not comparable)
- aspish; relating to an asp, a small venomous snake of Egypt.
- 1923, Wallace Stevens, "In the Carolinas," Harmonium, Faber and Faber (2001), ISBN 978-0571207794, page 3,
- Timeless mother, / How is it that your aspic nipples / For once vent honey?
- 1923, Wallace Stevens, "In the Carolinas," Harmonium, Faber and Faber (2001), ISBN 978-0571207794, page 3,
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French
[edit] Noun
aspic m. inv.