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Concealed in a hillside thicket, Alobar kept one eye on the harvest, one on the road to the west, down which he expected at any moment to see an hashish-colored woman jiggling and swaying: jumping beans in aspic, a satin ship rolling in a tide of licorice sauce.
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- noun A clear jelly typically made of stock and gelatin and used as a glaze or garnish or to make a mold of meat, fish, or vegetables.
- noun Archaic An asp.
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- I remember sitting up and saying, "I'm a dandy in aspic" and trying to remember if aspic was some kind of jelly. — Duma Key
- I also told him he was a dandy in aspic, and that his father hated him. — Duma Key
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Concealed in a hillside thicket, Alobar kept one eye on the harvest, one on the road to the west, down which he expected at any moment to see an hashish-colored woman jiggling and swaying: jumping beans in aspic, a satin ship rolling in a tide of licorice sauce.
— La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth - If the impact of smashing nose-first into the dirt didn't kill me, I'd be imbedded, tires spinning hopelessly, as immobile as parsley in aspic, a perfect, passive target … — When The Bough Breaks
- Goose in aspic, perhaps. — Little Girl Blue
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- French, from aspic, asp (from the resemblance of the jelly's coloration to an asp's); see aspic2.
- French, from Old French, alteration of aspe, from Latin aspis; see asp.
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/ (ăsˈpĭk)/
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