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bisque

1 [bisk]

–noun

1.	a thick cream soup, esp. of puréed shellfish or vegetables.

2.	ice cream made with powdered macaroons or nuts.

Also, bisk.

Origin:
1640–50; < F, of uncert. orig.

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2 [bisk]

–noun Sports.

a point, extra turn, or the like, as in court tennis or croquet.

Origin:
1605–15; < F, earlier biscaye, of uncert. orig.

bisque

3 [bisk]

–noun

1.	biscuit (def. 4).

2.	Also called biscuit ware. vitreous china that is left unglazed.

3.	pinkish-tan.

–adjective

4.	having the color bisque.

Origin:
1655–65; short for biscuit

bis⋅cuit

[bis-kit]

–noun

1.	a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast.

Chiefly British.

a.	a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; a cracker.

a cookie.

3.	a pale-brown color.

4.	Also called bisque. Ceramics. unglazed earthenware or porcelain after firing.

5.	Also called preform. a piece of plastic or the like, prepared for pressing into a phonograph record.

–adjective

6.	having the color biscuit.

Origin:
1300–50; ME bysquyte < MF biscuit (ML biscoctus), var. of bescuit seamen's bread, lit., twice cooked, equiv. to bes bis ¹ + cuit, ptp. of cuire < L coquere to cook ¹

Related forms:

bis⋅cuit⋅like, adjective

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bis·cuit (bĭs'kĭt)

n. pl. bis·cuits

A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
Chiefly British
1. A thin, crisp cracker.
2. A cookie.
A pale brown.
pl. biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed. Also called bisque².

[Middle English bisquit, from Old French biscuit, from Medieval Latin bis coctus : Latin bis, twice; see dwo- in Indo-European roots + Latin coctus, past participle of coquere, to cook; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

bisque¹ (bĭsk)

1. A rich, creamy soup made from meat, fish, or shellfish.
2. A thick cream soup made of puréed vegetables.
Ice cream mixed with crushed macaroons or nuts.

[Perhaps from French dialectal, sour soup, from Biscaye, Bay of Biscay.]

bisque² (bĭsk)

See biscuit.
1. A pale orange-yellow to yellowish gray.
2. A color ranging in various industries from moderate yellowish pink to grayish yellow.

[From biscuit.]

bisque³ (bĭsk)

n. An advantage allowed an inferior player in certain games, such as a free point in tennis, an extra turn in croquet, or an additional stroke in golf.

[French.]

Bisque

Bisque\, n. [A corruption of biscuit.] Unglazed white porcelain.

Bisque

Bisque\, n. [F.] A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.

Bisque

Bisque\, n. [F.] A white soup made of crayfish.

bisque

1647, from Fr. bisque "crayfish soup," said to be an altered form of Biscaye "Biscay."

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