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- noun Plural form of
congee .
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Examples
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Curries and congees were sandwiched between recipes for omelettes and shepherd's pie.
Cookbooks From Britannia Rule! Katherine Wheelock 2011
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Michael, if Taiwan were to become a province of Mexico, then we should all be putting tacos in our congees, instead of 油條。
US Postal Service Flouts US Policy, Annexes Taiwan to China Michael Turton 2008
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“You could not have come at a better moment, my dear,” the Baroness said to her nephew, as her visitors departed with many curtseys and congees.
The Virginians 2006
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Their line of congees, as well as the spare ribs, fish and oyster cakes, make the visit worthwhile.
Archive 2003-06-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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Their line of congees, as well as the spare ribs, fish and oyster cakes, make the visit worthwhile.
notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003
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So saying, he bowed with a thousand apish congees, and presented his paper to Peregrine, who, seeing the number of subscribers was limited to one hundred, said he thought him too moderate in his expectations, as he did not doubt that his picture would be a cheap purchase at five hundred, instead of fifty pounds, at which the price was fixed.
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This petit-maitre, proud of the employment, went up to the senior, who had something extremely peculiar and significant in his countenance, and saluting him with divers fashionable congees, accosted him in these words:
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Hot Cereals Hot cereals have been eaten since the dawn of civilization in the form of gruels, porridges, and congees.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Then the Earl was approached, with several fantastic congees, by a person quaintly dressed in a doublet of black velvet, curiously slashed and pinked with crimson satin.
Kenilworth 2004
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Then returning with a slight nod the reverential congees of the Jew, he walked gravely up the lane, followed by his master, whose first observation on the scene he had just witnessed was, that Wayland ought to have paid the man for his drug, whatever it was.
Kenilworth 2004
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