aspic

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The waiter approached with plates of chicken in aspic, and more rolls of crisp browned bread.

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  1. 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.
  2. noun Archaic An asp.

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  1. French, from aspic, asp (from the resemblance of the jelly's coloration to an asp's); see aspic2.
  2. French, from Old French, alteration of aspe, from Latin aspis; see asp.

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  1. Early modern English aspicke, from French aspic, in huile d'aspic for huile de spic (so first in English, “oil of aspicke”); spic, lavender spike, orig. spikenard: see spike.
  2. F.; perhaps from aspic, an asp (see aspic), with allusion to its coolness, there being a French proverbial saying, “Cold as an aspic” (Littré); or perhaps from the (supposed) custom of flavoring or seasoning this dish with spikes of lavender: see aspic.
 

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/ˈæspɪk/
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