单词 | brown soup |
释义 | > as lemmasbrown soup brown soup n. any of various types of soup which are brown in appearance, typically made with beef or mutton; in later use sometimes mildly depreciative; cf. white soup n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f. ΚΠ 1734 Young Lady's Compan. in Cookery 153 (heading) To make a Brown Soup or Soup-Sangle. 1844 Proc. Glasgow Philos. Soc. 1843–4 229 He had no breakfast, and at four o'clock had for dinner one pound of beef-steak, half-a-pound of bread, sixteen liquid ounces of brown soup, and half-a-bottle of porter. 1949 P. Frankau Willow Cabin i. vii. 139 The boarding-house dinner was served at seven-fifteen; brown soup, cold boiled beef with a limp salad, prunes and custard. 1959 Home Encycl. 85 Espagnole. Brown soup made with beef or mutton, thickened with onion purée. 2010 J. O'Connor Ghost Light (2011) xiii. 209 King's speech on the wireless. Muddling through. Brown soup. Watered beer. A bunk-up in a doorway. < as lemmas |
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