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  • noun Plural form of souper.

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Examples

  • From the recesses of UbuWeb comes Musique pour les soupers des Roi Ubu by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, one of the best collage pieces to come out of that 60's fad.

    "You talk about me just as much as you please... I'll tell God about you when I get on my knees" Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • At times, the smoke and emissions were so heavy that residents referred to the events as ‘pea soupers’ because the fog was as dense as pea soup.

    London smog disaster, England 2008

  • From the recesses of UbuWeb comes Musique pour les soupers des Roi Ubu by Bernd Alois Zimmermann, one of the best collage pieces to come out of that 60's fad.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2006

  • "Fog everywhere," Charles Dickens once wrote of London's famous pea soupers.

    BA Hamstrung By Pea Souper 2006

  • "Fog everywhere," Charles Dickens once wrote of London's famous pea soupers.

    BA Hoping Pea Souper Will Lift 2006

  • Every evening we used to go to the theatre, and some of our friends would invite us to petits soupers.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • Minories; — do you think, sirrah, I do not know what human nature is; what is the cost of Pall Mall taverns, petits soupers, play even in moderation — at the Cocoa – Tree; and that a gentleman cannot purchase all these enjoyments with the five hundred a year which I allow him?

    The Virginians 2006

  • Apart from herself, no ladies were admitted to these events, the wives, mistresses, and other hangers-on being mollified with their own petits soupers on Thursday evenings.

    The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

  • The soot drifting down, commonly referred to as “blacks” and the smell of coal were pervasive as were the pea-soupers, fogs caused by a foul mixture of soot, smoke and fog.

    A London Fog 2006

  • The growth of industry and the ever expanding population which relied on coal for heating and cooking meant that those elements which contributed to “pea-soupers” increased in volume.

    A London Fog 2006

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