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Caviar   /kˈæviˌɑr/   Listen
Caviar

noun
1.
Salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre.  Synonym: caviare.



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... and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling—tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility—these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded ...
— The Devil's Dictionary • Ambrose Bierce



Words linked to "Caviar" :   hard roe, caviare, roe, beluga caviar



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