consommé

See also consomme

English

Etymology

From the French consommer “to boil down,” from the Latin consummare “to complete”

Noun

consommé (plural consommés)

1. a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly
   • 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.

---

French

Verb

consommé m. (f consommée, m plural consommés, f plural consommées)

1. Past participle of consommer

---

Italian

Noun

consommé m. inv.

1. consommé