bisque

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /bɪsk/

Borrowed from French bisque, possibly from Biscaye.

bisque (countable and uncountable, plural bisques)

1. A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.

   lobster bisque

2. A pale pinkish brown colour.

   bisque colour:  

3. (ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.

• bisque doll

bisque (not comparable)

1. Of a pale pinkish brown colour.

• biscuit (adjective)

• Appendix:Colors

Borrowed from French bisque, of unknown origin; Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française,[1] suggests a comparison with Spanish bisca (“gambling house, gambling den”).

bisque (plural bisques)

1. (sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
   • 1937 March 19, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 851336728; republished Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58567-277-6 , pages 137–138:

     Going round with Angus McTavish carrying your bag, she mused, was equivalent to about four bisques to the opposition. Angus McTavish was the sort of man who, just by going about looking like a frozen asset, takes all the edge and zip out of a girl's game.

   1. A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
   2. A free point in a handicap real tennis match.

• Homophones: bisquent, bisques

• IPA^(key): /bisk/

bisque f (plural bisques)

1. bisque (soup, colour)
2. (tennis) advantage

bisque

1. first-person singular present indicative of bisquer
2. third-person singular present indicative of bisquer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of bisquer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of bisquer
5. second-person singular imperative of bisquer