bisque

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Offered to increase my handicap to five bisque, advised me to get my wrists into the stroke and keep my body out.

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

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  • Lobster bisque, a pear-and-Camembert salad, tiny veal chops surrounded by a yin-yang swirl of pureed peas and carrots, a green salad. —  Mistress of Justice
  • Pumpkin soup or butternut squash bisque -- which is better? —  NashvilleScene.com
  • The bisque is a recipe for "Belzoni Crawfish Rice and Corn" and is found on pages 84 and 85. —  Blogger News Network
  • Offered to increase my handicap to five bisque, advised me to get my wrists into the stroke and keep my body out. —  Torchy As A Pa
  • The soup was tomato bisque, the fish was salmon, the roast was beef, rare, the salad, tomato jelly, the dessert, strawberry ice cream, and with it small cakes heart-shaped and covered with pink icing In the drawing room a Cupid whirling on a card pointed with his arrow to a number, and the person who took from Mrs. Watkins's hand the envelope marked with the number indicated was instructed where to look for his valentine. —  Ethel Morton's Holidays
 

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  1. Perhaps from French dialectal, sour soup, from Biscaye, Bay of Biscay.
  2. From biscuit.
  3. French.

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  1. See biscuit.
  2. French, crawfish soup; origin unknown.
 

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