Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A highly spiced dish consisting of roasted game birds minced and stewed in wine.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A ragout of roasted woodcocks, larks, thrushes, or other species of game, minced and stewed with wine, little pieces of bread, and other ingredients to stimulate the appetite.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Cookery) Same as salmis.
WordNet 3.0
- n. ragout of game in a rich sauce
Etymologies
- French salmis, short for salmigondis, salmagundi; see salmagundi. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew — often served, like chipped beef, over toast — that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s.”
“– Henry made a "salmi" of the quail for breakfast that was truly delicious: I could be a gourmet, if I could always feed on such salmis.”
“I like to see them wink at a glass of claret, as if they had an intimate acquaintance with it, and discuss a salmi — poor boys — it is only when they grow old that they know they know nothing of the science, when perhaps their conscience whispers them that the science is in itself little worth, and that a leg of mutton and content is as good as the dinners of pontiffs.”
“This is a nice mode of serving the remains of roasted game, but when a superlative salmi is desired, the birds must be scarcely more than half roasted for it.”
“This is very good to surround grilled chicken or turkey legs, or for a salmi of duck or hare.”
“But we have no time to dwell upon our personal fascinations, or to speculate upon the cause of their increase within the last half hour; no eyes have we save for that Lucullian _salmi_ steaming before us; and, like ourselves, all around us are absorbed in absorbing.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
“He was smoking a cigarette, with an untasted salmi of something on his plate and a half-empty bottle of Sauterne before him, and he was quite silent.”
“The salmi which followed it was good, and even the Feodora chef could not have sent up a better rum omelette.”
“What an admirable _salmi_ this is; undoubtedly the final end of the pheasant.”
“This salmi of fig - peckers (or of some similar bird, for it is so ingeniously flavored and spiced, that I cannot be sure) is miraculous.”
Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
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qroqqa He was smoking a cigarette, with an untasted salmi of something on his plate and a half-empty bottle of Sauterne before him; and he was quite silent.
—Max Beerbohm, 'Enoch Soames' Aug 3, 2009