consommé

noun

consommé

noun

/ˈkɒnsəˌmeɪ/

Etymology Unadapted borrowing from French consommé. Doublet of consummate.

1

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

  • 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:

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