Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A savory preserve made of white currants or gooseberries.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Bar-le-Duc, a town of northeast France.]
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The mouth-watering paragraph on food caught my eye - thanks for the link explaining "bar-le-duc".
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She ordered with a sense of novelty and thrift, passing on from grilled spring chicken, bar-le-duc, and honey-dew melon to eggs and bacon.
Star-Dust Fannie Hurst 1928
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