aspic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈæspɪk/
aspic (plural aspics)
- A dish in which ingredients are set into a gelatine, jelly-like substance made from a meat stock or consommé.
- 1943, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Bobbs Merrill, page 441:
- "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Wynand," whispered Keating. His eyes fixed upon the tomato aspic on his salad plate; it was soft and shivering; it made him sick.
- 1943, Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, Bobbs Merrill, page 441:
- (obsolete, poetic) 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.
- 1833, Lord Alfred Tennyson, "A Dream of Fair Women":
- (With that she tore her robe apart, and half / The polished argent of her breast to sight / Laid bare. Thereto she pointed with a laugh, / Showing the aspic's bite. )
- 1623, William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra:
- A piece of ordnance carrying a 12-pound shot.
- French: aspic
- German: Sülze, Aspik
- Italian: aspic
- Portuguese: geleia
- Russian: холоде́ц
- Spanish: áspic, queso de cabeza
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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