dulse
nounUK, US /dʌls/
Etymology Borrowed from Irish duileasc, Scottish Gaelic duileasg; compare Welsh delysg.
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Usually A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
- Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse, it makes you even thirstier.’1997, “Egil's Saga”, in Bernard Scudder, transl., The Sagas of Icelanders, Penguin, published 2001, page 151:
- They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 90:
- Derived terms
- pepper dulse, shell dulse