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  • noun A chicken reared to be eaten at a few weeks of age.

Etymologies

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French

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Examples

  • She suggests a four-stage process: walk into your house; turn the oven up high; prepare two or three ingredients in imaginative combinations (such as poussin, sweet potato and red onions; or cod, courgettes and capers); slap them in the oven, soused with oil and herbs; and retire to a sofa to souse yourself with something even stronger.

    Sorted For Brill And Whizz 2009

  • She suggests a four-stage process: walk into your house; turn the oven up high; prepare two or three ingredients in imaginative combinations (such as poussin, sweet potato and red onions; or cod, courgettes and capers); slap them in the oven, soused with oil and herbs; and retire to a sofa to souse yourself with something even stronger.

    Sorted For Brill And Whizz 2009

  • She suggests a four-stage process: walk into your house; turn the oven up high; prepare two or three ingredients in imaginative combinations (such as poussin, sweet potato and red onions; or cod, courgettes and capers); slap them in the oven, soused with oil and herbs; and retire to a sofa to souse yourself with something even stronger.

    Sorted For Brill And Whizz 2009

  • Chef Ming Tsai uses lapsang souchong at home and in the kitchen of his Wellesley, Mass. restaurant, Blue Ginger, as a stock for rice, a fuel for wok-smoked poussin and in a versatile chipotle-inspired tea-and-chile spice rub.

    Tea's Got a Brand New Bag 2011

  • For dinner, choose from red snapper with saffron risotto, cider braised lamb shoulder, poussin or royal trumpet mushrooms with swiss chard and blood oranges.

    Restaurant Week's extended course Post 2011

  • On a whim, the owner asks Roland to prepare her a poussin dish, off-menu, and then changes her mind at the last minute.

    Another view on Whites Interview by Laura Barnett 2010

  • Popular dishes include poussin roulade with cauliflower, chanterelles and P é rigord truffles ($24), and shrimp simmered in spices with a string hoppers — a noodle dish, with korma sauce and black mustard ($26), says Rahul Nair , the hotel's director of food and beverage.

    Campton Place Restaurant 2011

  • Whatever it lacks in coherence – a meal can take you in various directions – it makes up for in panache: a recent meal there took in herring roes on toast, Chinese-style spare ribs, sautéed lemon sole, and poussin, followed by a white chocolate parfait.

    The 20 best places to eat in Britain this summer 2010

  • For main courses, the Arctic char, the poussin or the rib eye (warning: the smallest is 30 ounces).

    Fact And Comment 2010

  • For main courses, the Arctic char, the poussin or the rib eye (warning: the smallest is 30 ounces).

    Fact And Comment 2010

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  • a small, very young chicken (something like a Cornish game hen).

    July 4, 2009