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bisque 1

 (bĭsk)
n.
1.
a. A rich, creamy soup made from meat, fish, or shellfish.
b. A thick cream soup made of puréed vegetables.
2. Ice cream mixed with crushed macaroons or nuts.
[Perhaps from French dialectal, sour soup, from Biscaye, Bay of Biscay.]

bisque 2

 (bĭsk)
n.
1. See biscuit.
2. A pale orange-yellow to yellowish gray.
[From biscuit.]

bisque 3

 (bĭsk)
n.
An advantage allowed an inferior player in certain games, such as a free point in tennis, an extra turn in croquet, or an additional stroke in golf.
[French.]
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bisque

(bɪsk)
n
(Cookery) a thick rich soup made from shellfish
[C17: from French]

bisque

(bɪsk)
n
1. (Colours)
a. a pink to yellowish tan colour
b. (as modifier): a bisque tablecloth.
2. (Ceramics) ceramics another name for biscuit4
[C20: shortened from biscuit]

bisque

(bɪsk)
n
(Tennis) tennis golf croquet an extra point, stroke, or turn allowed to an inferior player, usually taken when desired
[C17: from French, of obscure origin]
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bisque1

(bɪsk)

n.
1. a thick cream soup, esp. of puréed shellfish.
2. ice cream made with powdered macaroons or nuts.
[1640–50; < French]

bisque3

(bɪsk)

n.
1. biscuit (def. 4).
2. vitreous china that is left unglazed.
3. pinkish-tan.
[1655–65; short for biscuit]
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Noun1.bisque - a thick cream soup made from shellfishbisque - a thick cream soup made from shellfish
soup - liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
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bisque

[bɪsk] N (Culin) → sopa f de mariscos (Sport) → ventaja f (Pottery) → bizcocho m, biscuit m
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bisque

n
(= pottery) → Biskuitporzellan nt
(= soup) → Fischcremesuppe f
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Roast partridges, flanked with quails and flanking a larded leveret; boiled fowls; hams, fried and sprinkled with white wine, cardons of Guipuzcoa and la bisque ecrevisses : these, together with soups and hors d'oeuvres , constituted the governor's bill of fare.
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Originally, bisque was used to describe any highly spiced dish of boiled meat or game (Montagne 99).
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