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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pea-soup.

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Examples

  • I refused ham and pigeons, pease-soup, stewed beef, cold salmon, because they were too strong.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • The witch made pease-soup of it, and set it before the daughter.

    The Red Fairy Book 2003

  • On Monday's milk porritch, blue and tasteless, and the pease-soup of Saturday, coarse and choking, were enriched for him with

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

  • I was not ashamed at asking him to sit down to table, for we had some pease-soup, a sparerib, and a pudding.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

  • The witch made pease-soup of it, and set it before the daughter.

    Red Fairy Book 1890

  • The smoke tells them the pease-soup is cooking in the pot.

    Child Life In Town And Country 1909 Anatole France 1884

  • But the thought of the pease-soup keeps up their courage.

    Child Life In Town And Country 1909 Anatole France 1884

  • Exceedingly dense fogs, -- as thick as pease-soup, said the English sailors, -- islands of ice a mile and a half in circumferance, floating mountains which were sunk seventy or eighty fathoms in the sea, such were the obstacles which prevented Frobisher from reaching before the 9th of

    Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866

  • With the end of his wooden leg the cook then gives a twist to the cock of the coppers, to let some of the pease-soup in preparation run off and show itself to the noble commander's inspection.

    The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

  • “I am used worse than a dog!” he would cry, secretly delighted to have gained the luxury of a grievance, “I can't even get a basin of pease-soup put by for me; it's an infernal shame, I'll cut the service!”

    The Lieutenant and Commander Hall, Basil, 1788-1844 1862

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