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aspic
1[ as-pik ]
noun
- a savory jelly usually made with meat or fish stock and gelatin, chilled and used as a garnish and coating for meats, seafoods, eggs, etc.
- a similar jelly made with spiced tomato juice and gelatin, served as a salad.
aspic
2[ as-pik ]
noun
- Obsolete. asp 1( def 1 ).
aspic
3[ as-pik ]
noun
- a variety of lavender ( Lavandula spica ) cultivated for its oil, used in perfumes and toiletries.
aspic
1/ ˈæspɪk /
noun
- either of two species of lavender, Lavandula spica or L. latifolia , that yield an oil used in perfumery: family Lamiaceae (labiates)
aspic
2/ ˈæspɪk /
noun
- an archaic word for asp 1
aspic
3/ ˈæspɪk /
noun
- a savoury jelly based on meat or fish stock, used as a relish or as a mould for meat, vegetables, etc
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aspic1
First recorded in 1780–90; from French; perhaps so called because the form or color resembled those of an asp, or because the jelly was as cold as an asp; aspic 2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of aspic1
C16: from Old French, a variant of aspe asp ²
Origin of aspic2
C17: from French, from Old Provençal espic spike, from Latin spīca, head (of flower); compare spikenard
Origin of aspic3
C18: from French: aspic (jelly), asp 1; variously explained as referring to its colour or coldness as compared to that of the snake
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Example Sentences
Ornament the top with chopped aspic and alternate slices of lemon and cucumber round.
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Roast a brace of grouse, and skin them, and mask them with brown sauce in which aspic has been mixed.
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Turn out and decorate the base with chopped aspic, truffles, parsley, and tomatoes.
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Garnish with chopped aspic round the larks, and sippets of aspic beyond this.
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Take a pretty shaped jelly mould, pour in a little of the red aspic to about rather more than a quarter of the mould.
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