gazpacho

What it means

1. countableuncountableA cold soup of Spanish origin, made with olive oil, vinegar, bread and raw vegetables such as tomatoes, garlic, onion, cucumber and sweet peppers.

   Seville is the home of gazpacho, a delicious cold soup of cucumber, tomato, and miscellaneous garnishings.

   1964, Jan Morris, “Plural Spain”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN

   3 more examples

   First, as to the title: Gazpacho is the name of a dish universal in, and peculiar to, Spain. It is a sort of cold soup, made of bread, pot-herbs, oil, and water. Its materials are easily come by, and its concoction requires no skill.

   1850, William George Clark, Gazpacho: Or, Summer Months in Spain, page v

   […] I’d rather have my fill of gazpacho than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who kills me with hunger, and I’d rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a government.

   1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter LIII, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, pages 367–369

   He will eat a plateful of gazpacho or puchero, a sardine, half a roll of bread, and drink clear water as often as wine. Food is always of secondary importance: he ranks it after his novia, after his cigarillo, after the bulls.

   1904, L. Higgin, Eugène E. Street, Spanish Life in Town and Country

In a sentence

First, as to the title: Gazpacho is the name of a dish universal in, and peculiar to, Spain. It is a sort of cold soup, made of bread, pot-herbs, oil, and water. Its materials are easily come by, and its concoction requires no skill.

1850, William George Clark, Gazpacho: Or, Summer Months in Spain, page v

Where it comes from

1. Latingazophylacium“treasure-chest in a church”
2. Mozarabic*gazpelağo
3. Spanishgazpacho
4. Englishgazpacho

From Spanish gazpacho, perhaps via Mozarabic *gazpelağo from Latin gazophylacium (“treasure-chest in a church”), alluding to the diversity of its contents. Alternatively, related to Spanish caspicias (“remnants”).