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vermicelli|vɜːmɪˈsɛlɪ, vɜːmɪˈtʃɛlɪ|
Also 7 vermechulli, virmizzelli, 8 vermigelly; 8 vermicelly (-cella), vermeselly.
[a. It. vermicelli, pl. of vermicello, dim. of verme:—L. vermem, acc. sing. of vermis worm. Cf. prec.]
1. A kind of pasta made in the form of long, slender, hard threads, and used as an article of diet. Cf. macaroni 1.
1669Davenant Man's the Master i. i, Vermechulli shall my Palat please, Serv'd in with Bisques, Ragous, and Intermets. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. i. 54 Vermicelli, wafers, and pie-crust, are all of them diversified meal. 1709Prior Paulo Purganti 65 With Oysters, Eggs, and Vermicelli, She let Him almost burst his Belly. 1747H. Glasse Cookery xix. 155 It will run up like little Worms, as Vermicella does. 1767Ann. Reg. i. 92 The free importation of rice, sago dust, and vermicelli..from the American colonies. 1819Byron Juan ii. clxx, Ceres presents a plate of vermicelli. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1276 The macaroni requires to be made of a less compact dough than the vermicelli. 1887L. Oliphant Episodes (1888) 153 A soup in which was floating what appeared to be pieces of vermicelli.
b. attrib., chiefly in the sense ‘made of vermicelli’, as vermicelli pudding, vermicelli soup; also ‘resembling or suggestive of vermicelli’, as vermicelli braid, vermicelli braiding.
1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 1 When you make any kind of soups, particularly portable, vermicelli, or brown gravy soup. Ibid. 175 A Vermicelli Pudding. Boil four ounces of vermicelli in a pint of new milk till it is soft [etc.]. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 207 White Vermicelli Soup. 1884Illustr. Lond. News 20 Sept. 267/2 We had vermicelli soup (flavoured with grated parmesan cheese). 1904Daily Chron. 23 Aug. 8/1 Quite the newest of these embroideries are the so-called vermicelli braids, narrow crinkled cords formed into whirligig devices of no decidedly definite pattern. 1907Ibid. 1 Oct. 8 Sleeveless coats in fine cloth, covered entirely with vermicelli braiding.
2. ellipt. Vermicelli soup.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 26 April, We..commonly stop at Mr. Gill's, the pastry-cook, to take a jelly, a tart, or a small basin of vermicelli. 1850Mayne Reid Rifle Rangers xiv, ‘Perhaps you would prefer Julienne or vermicelli, gentlemen?’ inquired the Don. |