consommé
See also: consomme
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French consommé. Doublet of consummate.
Noun
consommé (countable and uncountable, plural consommés)
- a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 132:
- For after washing at the hotel at Patras, Jacob had followed the tram lines a mile or so out; and followed them a mile or so back; he had met several droves of turkeys; several strings of donkeys; had got lost in back streets; had read advertisements of corsets and Maggi's consommé; children had trodden on his toes; the place smelt of bad cheese; and he was glad to find himself suddenly come out opposite his hotel.
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 132:
Translations
a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
French
Verb
consommé m (feminine singular consommée, masculine plural consommés, feminine plural consommées)
- past participle of consommer
Further reading
- “consommé” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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