ASPIC


Meaning of ASPIC in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A more elegant and courtly preparation was quail in aspic , often served with foie gras or truMes.

By the mid-1990s Northern Ireland had the feeling of a country in aspic .

Evocative, yes, but don't think that today's Ireland is set in some quaint emerald aspic .

He had large dark eyes, like pears set in port wine aspic , deep pools in a thin, delicate face.

He had time to think, time to become an old man in aspic , in sculptured soap, quaint and white.

His head is perfect, tanned the shade of aspic , kept beautiful by concentration.

Pour in the cool saffron aspic as you go, layer by layer.

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