twice-laid

noun

A dish prepared from cold fish and potatoes.

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Meanings

nountwice-laid (uncountable)
  1. archaicslanguncountablenauticalA dish prepared from cold fish and potatoes.

    There should have been there a superb dish of twice-laid, only the rats had eaten up all the salt fish, and the Commodore and his friends had eaten up all the potatoes […]

    1837, The Athenaeum, page 741
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APA

twice-laid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/twice-laid

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