Meanings
nounsmoking bishop (uncountable)
- uncountableA kind of mulled wine served hot.
I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob!
1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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