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con⋅som⋅mé

[kon-suh-mey, kon-suh-mey]
–noun
a clear soup made by boiling meat or chicken, bones, vegetables, etc., to extract their nutritive properties: served hot or jellied.

Origin:
1805–15; < F, n. use of consommé, ptp. of consommer to finish < L consummāre to add up, finish; see consummate


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con·som·mé   (kŏn'sə-mā', kŏn'sə-mā')   
n.  A clear soup made of strained meat or vegetable stock, served hot or as a cold jelly.

[French, from past participle of consommer, to use up, from Latin cōnsummāre, to finish; see consummate.]
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