consommé
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From the French consommer “to boil down,” from the Latin consummare “to complete”
[edit] Noun
consommé
- a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly
[edit] Quotations
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 132
- For after washing at the hotel at Patras, Jacob had followed the tram lines a mile or so out; and followed them a mile or so back; he had met several droves of turkeys; several strings of donkeys; had got lost in back streets; had read advertisements of corsets and Maggi's consommé; children had trodden on his toes; the place smelt of bad cheese; and he was glad to find himself suddenly come out opposite his hotel.
[edit] French
[edit] Verb
consommé
- Past participle of consommer.
[edit] Italian
[edit] Noun
consommé m. inv.
