Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See salmi.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Cookery) A ragout of partly roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.

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  • noun Plural form of salmi.

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Examples

  • • Le salmis de pieuvre au girofle Mauritius de Stelio Perombelon, chef des Cons servent et du Pullman ak

    Christmas in September 2009

  • • Le salmis de pieuvre au girofle Mauritius de Stelio Perombelon, chef des Cons servent et du Pullman ak

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • We are serving salmis de palombes, which is pigeon pie, very succulent, in a Merlot and shallot sauce.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • We are serving salmis de palombes, which is pigeon pie, very succulent, in a Merlot and shallot sauce.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • We are serving salmis de palombes, which is pigeon pie, very succulent, in a Merlot and shallot sauce.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • We are serving salmis de palombes, which is pigeon pie, very succulent, in a Merlot and shallot sauce.

    The Hundred-Foot Journey Richard C. Morais 2008

  • A juicy pigeon was perched on the edge of the tart, accompanied by a rich salmis made from its liver and heart.

    The White Stuff: Fleur de Sel Worth Its Salt 2000

  • A juicy pigeon was perched on the edge of the tart, accompanied by a rich salmis made from its liver and heart.

    The White Stuff: Fleur de Sel Worth Its Salt 2000

  • May have our full fling at their _salmis_ and patés.

    A Poetical Cook-Book Maria J. Moss

  • The most knowing in these matters are supposed to be Pierre, the host of the Grand Café, right under the rooms of the Jockey Club, and the rotund Henry, keeper of the Restaurant Bignon, Avenue de l'Opéra, the confidant of certain turfmen, who may favor him with invaluable hints if their _salmis_ of woodcocks should have been a success or their

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

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  • "He helped himself gloomily to salmis of game."

    Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers, p 75

    January 6, 2014