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  • noun Plural form of rarebit.

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Examples

  • In fact, according to Jane Grigson, rarebits were once common throughout southern and western England, but, with the only Welsh sort still on the menu, it seems they really do know how to do it best north of the Bristol Channel.

    How to cook perfect welsh rarebit 2011

  • I like English mustard in my rarebits, just to add a bit of a kick – wholegrain and Dijon are both too sharp here for my taste.

    How to cook perfect welsh rarebit 2011

  • Anyway, Barn, are you sure we need Welsh rarebits?

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Anyway, how did you think I was going to make my mini rarebits without my mustard-and-Tabasco spuma?

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Anyway, Barn, are you sure we need Welsh rarebits?

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Anyway, how did you think I was going to make my mini rarebits without my mustard-and-Tabasco spuma?

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Mrs. Moriarty, known simply as The Widow after her husband died, served Welsh rarebits, eggs on toast and grilled sardines when she wasn't knitting in a rocking chair.

    Economy puts epic Yale eating/drinking club at risk 2008

  • To my complete surprise, the intervening 40 years and the multitude of rarebits I had made hadn't affected my memory of the way that first experience tasted at all.

    Meatloaf 2005

  • Welsh rarebits, and the like, of which he was exceedingly fond; and, lastly, a bath.

    Sister Carrie 2004

  • To make five rarebits take one pound cheese grate and put in the saucepan; add ale (old is best) enough to thin the cheese sufficiently, say about a wine glassful to each rarebit.

    My Pet Recipes, Tried and True Contributed by the Ladies and Friends of St. Andrew's Church, Quebec Various

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