consommé

/ˈkɒnsəˌmeɪ/

noun

a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly

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Meanings

nounconsommé (countable and uncountable, plural consommés)

plural consommés · alternative consomme

  1. countableuncountablea clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly
    1 more example

    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, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 132

Origin

  1. Frenchconsommé
  2. Englishconsommé

Unadapted borrowing from French consommé. Doublet of consummate.

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Translations

Catalan consomé
  • consoméa clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Chinese Mandarin 清湯 /清汤
  • 清湯 /清汤 (qīngtāng)a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Dutch consommé
  • consomméa clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Esperanto konsomeo
  • konsomeoa clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
French consommé
  • consomméa clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
German Consommé
  • Consomméa clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Greek κονσομέ, ζωμός
  • κονσομέ (konsomé)a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
  • ζωμός (zomós)a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Indonesian konsom
  • konsoma clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Japanese コンソメ, コンソメスープ
  • コンソメ (konsome)a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
  • コンソメスープ (konsomesūpu)a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Portuguese consomê
  • consomêa clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Russian консоме́
  • консоме́ (konsomɛ́)a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Spanish consomé
  • consoméa clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Turkish konsome
  • konsomea clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
Yiddish קאָנסאָמע
  • קאָנסאָמע (konsome)a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
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Chicago

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