Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A chilled soup made with chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, peppers, and herbs.

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  • noun A cold soup of Spanish origin, made with tomatoes and raw vegetables.

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  • noun a soup made with chopped tomatoes and onions and cucumbers and peppers and herbs; served cold

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Spanish, originally, a soup made from pulverized stale or toasted bread, from a Mozarabic source perhaps akin to Spanish caspicias, remainders, and caspa, dandruff (of pre-Roman Iberian origin), or from Late Latin gāzophylacium, treasury, alms box (the soup being so called because of the miscellaneous worn-out items found in alms boxes), from Greek gāzophulakion, treasury : gāza, treasure (of Iranian origin; Persian ganj, treasure) + phulax, phulak-, guard.]

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From Spanish gazpacho.

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  • I drink it for almost all the year. This one is my favourite

    October 21, 2007