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▪ I. bisque1|bɪsk|
Also 7 biscaye, 8 bisk.
[a. F. bisque, of same meaning; of unknown origin. Littré compares It. bisca a gaming-place, a ‘hell.’]
1. Real Tennis. A term for the odds which one player gives the other in allowing him to score one point once during the ‘set’ at any time he may elect. Also in Croquet: An extra turn allowed to a weaker player.
[1611Cotgr., Biscaye, a vantage at Tennis. Bisque, a fault at Tennis.] 1656Blount Glossogr., Bisque (Fr.), a fault at Tennis. [So in 1678 Phillips.] 1679Shadwell True Widow I. Wks. 1720 III. 124 We'll play with you at a bisk, and a fault, for twenty pound. 1721Bailey, Bisk, Bisque, odds at the play of Tennis; a stroke allowed to the weaker player. French. 1872Prior Croquet 56 Mr. Hale made the happy suggestion of adopting the bisque as a means of equalizing a strong and a weak player. 1874Heath Croquet Pl. 77 Example of how to take the Bisque.
2. fig. † to have a bisque in one's sleeve: to have something to fall back upon, another resource, another string to one's bow. to give one fifteen, etc. and a bisque: to give him long odds, to ‘leave him nowhere’ in a contest or comparison.
1713Flying-Post 24 Nov. 26 He (like a compleat Politician) reserves always a Bisk in his sleeve (a Phrase we Tennis-players use). 1717Bullock Wom. a Riddle ii. 18 Before the game's up, I have a Bisk in my sleeve, an appeal to the House of Peers. 1881Sat. Rev. 30 July 136/2 If alliteration be a mark of study and finish, the latest school of English poetry can give Byron thirty and a bisque.
▪ II. bisque2
[f. biscuit.]
1. ? biscuit (bread).
2. In Pottery, = biscuit 2; also a variety of unglazed white porcelain used for statuettes, etc. Also attrib., as bisque oven.
1664Evelyn Sylva (1776) 619 Be sure never to carry your Bottle and Bisque into the field without your Style and Tablet. 1853Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 4) II. 454 The quantity of coals necessary for a ‘bisque’ oven is from 16 to 20 tons. 1864Daily Tel. 28 Sept., He had..seen vast numbers of statuettes in plaster of Paris and in bisque.
3. A light brown colour or tint. (Cf. biscuit 1 c.)
1922Glasgow Herald 17 Aug. 6 A dress of pale bisque. 1923Daily Mail 15 Jan. 1 In Navy, Bisque, Rust, Champagne, Orchid, Flesh, Silver, Nattier Blue, Black, Jade & Ivory.
▪ III. bisque
variant of bisk, soup. |