consommé

See also: consomme

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French consommé. Doublet of consummate.

Noun

consommé (countable and uncountable, plural consommés)

  1. 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.

Translations


French

Noun

consommé m (plural consommés)

  1. consommé

Verb

consommé m (feminine singular consommée, masculine plural consommés, feminine plural consommées)

  1. past participle of consommer

Further reading


Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French consommé.

Noun

consommé m (invariable)

  1. consommé
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