mock-turtle

noun

mock turtle soup

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Meanings

nounmock-turtle (uncountable)
  1. uncountablemock turtle soup

    This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.

    1827, Maria Eliza Rundell, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, page 341
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    O, this is he that disembodied matter, And prov’d that incorporeal corporations Put nothing in no platter, And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.

    1828, Thomas Hood, “The Logicians”, in The Portfolio, of Amusement and Instruction, in History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c., number 110, page 386

    Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir.

    1877, A. G. Payne, Common-Sense Papers on Cookery, page 217
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