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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
croquet .
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Examples
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Included in the list of possibilities right now is butternut squash soup, brandade croquets salt cod and mashed potatoes, julienne of carrot & daikon salad, celery, apple and blue cheese salad, chicken paprika, and mashed potatoes.
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Often served as a potato/panele special in which three potato croquets are added to this heavenly mix.
The Sandwich Manifesto. Ann Althouse 2008
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It is a neighborhood where the smell of bacon, eggs and biscuits, is no longer the predominant smell on Sunday mornings but where it blends with that of croquets, or empanadas, of refried beans.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm waiting for more croquets.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm waiting for more croquets.
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Where among the guava-filled postolitos (ph) and chicken croquets, politics is the nightly staple served up with Cuban coffee, as strong and pure as the passion displayed by these men and women who refer to themselves not as Cubans, nor Americans, but as exiles, hoping to return home.
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"Puddy will be made into delicious round croquets," and she smacked her lips with anticipatory relish.
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington
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Let cool, shape into croquets, dip in egg, roll in cracker crumbs, and fry quickly in deep hot fat.
Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams
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He said a man liked to be engaged to a clinging Vine, but that after marriage a Vine got to be a darned nusance and took everything while giving nothing, being the sort to prefer chicken croquets to steak and so on, and wearing a boudoir cap in bed in the mornings.
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917
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He said a man liked to be engaged to a clinging Vine, but that after marriage a Vine got to be a darned nusance and took everything while giving nothing, being the sort to prefer chicken croquets to steak and so on, and wearing a boudoir cap in bed in the mornings.
Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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