Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Milk boiled and thickened with rice.
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Examples
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So far today I have been very poorly and treated with being tucked up in bed (ow) sat on (ow) force-fed imaginary rice-milk custard (er) and chips with brown sauce (thank gods they were imaginary), and then done two loads in the dishwasher, washed and dressed self and two children, done a load of laundry, and tidied three rooms.
Another frequent request ailbhe 2008
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Two porringers and a spoon, placed on the bottom of an inverted basket, intimate that the woman seated near them, is a vender of rice-milk, which was at that time brought into the market every morning.
The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency John Trusler
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Water or rice-milk was his customary drink, wine and other intoxicants being rigorously forbidden, even as medicine.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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In most families, cold rice-milk is eaten at that early hour.
Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali 1885
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"Do you remember the fried eggs which tasted of straw, and the dreadful rice-milk of the Princess Chocolawska? and the melancholy air of the old dictator? and the German who used to pawn his god every three months?"
Ten Tales Fran��ois Copp��e 1875
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Burgomaster of _Hoorn_, who in the spring went over the (Zuyder?) sea to buy oxen, and going into a certain house he found seven little children sitting by the fire, each with a porringer in its hand, and eating rice-milk, or pap, with a spoon; on which the Burgomaster said
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Most dog-doctors give a dose of tartar emetic and calomel, like that I have mentioned above, if they are called in while the disease is in its first stage; but, when it is attended with a kind of dysentery, they give balls made of prepared chalk, gum arabic, and conserve of roses, and the dog is fed on rice-milk.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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Our dinner consisted of a dish of crawfish, and some very good rice-milk.
The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island Johann David Wyss 1780
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Contra - especially in the single "Horchata," which rhymes the titular Latin American rice-milk drink with Aranciata, Masada, Tokugawa and balaclava.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Heathrow security defuses deadly rice-milk threat by insisting that it be decanted into baby-bottles
Boing Boing 2009
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