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Shellfish entrée
Answer for the clue "Shellfish entrée ", 6 letters:
scampi
Alternative clues for the word scampi
- Second course at meal starts with very good seafood
- Sauteed shrimp dish
- Shrimp cooked in butter and garlic
- Dish prepared with garlic butter and white wine
- Fish dish, often in rings
- Big prawns swindle – one pockets penny
- Italian shrimp dish
- Rascal’s given one seafood
- Activity of crook detective tails in a restaurant
Word definitions for scampi in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1930, Italian scampo "prawn," ultimately from Greek kampe "a bending, a winding," from PIE root *kamp- "to bend" (see campus ).
Usage examples of scampi.
Soft yellow lights, simple music from Mantovani, big black cigars, champagne, truffles, crepes suzettes, squab, wild rice, sweetbreads, saltimbocca, mushrooms and scampi alia casalinga.
The menu had plunged downmarket to the scampi, chips and peas level, and the food was heartily mediocre.
The scampi simmered in the butter-and-garlic sauce and produced a delicious aroma.
Luigi particularly recommended the scampi served with a cream pernod sauce or the filets of wild duck with juniper berry sauce.
Soft yellow lights, simple music from Mantovani, big black cigars, champagne, truffles, crepes suzettes, squab, wild rice, sweetbreads, saltimbocca, mushrooms and scampi alia casalinga.