consommé
See also: consomme
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French consommé. Doublet of consummate.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
consommé (countable and uncountable, plural consommés)
- a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, paperback edition, Vintage Classics, page 132:
- For after washing at the hotel at Patras, Jacob had followed the tram lines a mile or so out; and followed them a mile or so back; he had met several droves of turkeys; several strings of donkeys; had got lost in back streets; had read advertisements of corsets and Maggi's consommé; children had trodden on his toes; the place smelt of bad cheese; and he was glad to find himself suddenly come out opposite his hotel.
Translations edit
a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock
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French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
consommé m (plural consommés)
Descendants edit
Adjective edit
consommé (feminine consommée, masculine plural consommés, feminine plural consommées)
- consummate (complete in every detail, perfect)
- consummate (highly skilled and experienced)
Participle edit
consommé (feminine consommée, masculine plural consommés, feminine plural consommées)
Further reading edit
- “consommé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French consommé. Doublet of consumato.
Noun edit
consommé m (invariable)
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French consommé. Doublet of consumado.
Noun edit
consommé m (plural consommés)
- Alternative form of consomê