Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Imitating turtle (soup): only in the phrase mock-turtle soup (an imitation of turtle soup made with calf's head).
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Examples
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It comes in five colors with contrasting cuffs and mock-turtle collar.
Jesse Kornbluth: 10 Great Things You're Not Likely to Get (Kisses if You Give Them) Jesse Kornbluth 2010
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It comes in five colors with contrasting cuffs and mock-turtle collar.
Jesse Kornbluth: 10 Great Things You're Not Likely to Get (Kisses if You Give Them) Jesse Kornbluth 2010
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It comes in five colors with contrasting cuffs and mock-turtle collar.
Jesse Kornbluth: 10 Great Things You're Not Likely to Get (Kisses if You Give Them) Jesse Kornbluth 2010
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It comes in five colors with contrasting cuffs and mock-turtle collar.
Jesse Kornbluth: 10 Great Things You're Not Likely to Get (Kisses if You Give Them) Jesse Kornbluth 2010
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FSJ, would you still sue the creator if he had dressed your caricature in a mock-turtle neck and had some U2 or Lothar and the Hand People as the music?
Attention, sensitards: This is not really me, so don't be offended 2007
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I had twice as many force-meat balls as Hoskins in my mock-turtle, and pretty nearly all the oysters out of the sauce-boat.
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There were five guests, and three silver tureens of soup: viz., mock-turtle soup, ox-tail soup, and giblet soup.
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Stash you ambitions someplace, and roll up the sleeves of your outdated mock-turtle.
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When she proposed her mock-turtle, and stewed pigeons, and gooseberry-cream, Rosa turned up her nose — a pretty little nose it was, by the way, and with a natural turn in that direction.
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We refreshed ourselves with a tin of mock-turtle soup and wine from the neighbouring pantry.
The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006
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