Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A clear soup made of strained meat or vegetable stock, served hot or as a cold jelly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A strong, clear soup, containing the nutritive properties of the meat, extracted by long and slow cooking.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Cookery) A clear soup or bouillion boiled down so as to be very rich.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a clear
broth made fromreduced meat orvegetable stock , served either hot as asoup orchilled as ajelly
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun clear soup usually of beef or veal or chicken
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French, from past participle of consommer, to use up, from Latin cōnsummāre, to finish; see consummate.]
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Borrowed from French.
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