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  • Then comes 'poisson' -- I fear it may be whiting -- filet de boeuf with tomates farcies, bouchées à la Reine, chicken, pigeons, salad, two vegetables, an ice, assorted fruits, and biscuits.

    A Chair on the Boulevard Leonard Merrick 1901

  • She wraps a large fish fillet in on itself, creating what's called poisson en colere: "The fish looks like it's chasing its tail and stays remarkably intact."

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - Homepage 2009

  • that's what I thought maybe they misspelled "poisson"--which is French for fish.

    Signs of Trouble 2009

  • Le Maurin des Maures, nearby, is a local institution, with a sunny terrace overlooking the sea and a €13.50 three-course menu offering soupe de poisson, delicious grilled sardines and profiteroles smothered with hot chocolate sauce.

    Budget bourguignon: cheap eats in France 2011

  • Chef Raymond Blancmange will work on a menu featuring French delicacies such as andouillettes, 'poisson d'avril' and seasonal fools for desserts.

    Andrew Lansley to add French lessons to NHS reform 2011

  • Daymon Gardner for The Wall Street Journal Shadyside plates The single best dish I have ever eaten was a soupe de poisson from Alain Assaud in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence.

    Bayou Boy John Besh 2011

  • All it shows is that the number of heart attacks (or whatever the loss with this characteristic is) somebody has over the course of their life is probably not poisson distributed, but possibly has a negative binomial distribution.

    Cowen Gets Caplanian, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Francophiles would do well with traditional fare: baby artichoke salad, fried zucchini blossom beignets or the Provençale soupe de poisson.

    From Nice to New York Monica Williams 2011

  • There was even a suggestion to use the French name, "boulettes de poisson."

    With Some Passing on Gefilte Fish, A New Lure: Fish 'Meatballs' Lucette Lagnado 2011

  • Among the delicious dishes we ordered: local oysters, soupe de poisson, calimari, octopus, and lobster that filled our taste buds with happiness.

    Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Chilling in Corsica, Part 3 2010

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