Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vegetable substance sometimes eaten by hunters and arctic explorers when no better food is to be found.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Same as Rock tripe, under
rock .
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Examples
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Franklin had eaten his shoes — and he'd eaten worse on that botched three-year journey, including tripe-de-roche, a disgusting gruel made from lichen scraped from rocks.
The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007
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_tripe-de-roche_, a lichen or moss which grows on the most barren rocks, and is only used as food in the absence of all other provisions.
Hudson Bay 1859
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_tripe-de-roche_ (which resembles dried-up seaweed), have a sad meaning and melancholy appearance to the traveller who journeys through the wilds and solitudes of Rupert's Land.
Hudson Bay 1859
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