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Dulse

Dulse \Dulse\ (d[u^]ls), n. [Cf. Gael. duileasg; duille leaf + uisge water. Cf. Whisky.] (Bot.) A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]

The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter.
--Percival.

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dulse

n. A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (''Palmaria palmata'') which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.

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dulse

n. coarse edible red seaweed [syn: Rhodymenia palmata]

Usage examples of "dulse".

That, perhaps, was something Dulse could teach him: what went deeper than mastery.

And seeing it, Dulse knew why he had never sought reconciliation with his father.

Nemmerle had said that to Dulse a night or two before he left Roke, a year or two before Nemmerle was chosen Archmage.

Nemmerle waited for had come and gone of his own will, and what they had thought of him on Roke Dulse did not know.

Lord of Gont Port had tried once again to get Dulse to come down to do what needed doing in Gont Port, and Dulse had sent Silence down instead, and there he had stayed.

Nodding donkeys walked up the cliff stair carrying panniers filled with kelp and dulse, wrack, oar weed, and laver.

They sat around its glassy blaze and ate some of their provisions: bannocks and dried fish, cheese, salty dulse, and red carrageen from the firth.

Viviana, chewing dulse, passed the time voicing nostalgic reflections about dinners at Court.

Combine tofu, umeboshi vinegar or dulse, mayonnaise, celery, onion, bell pepper, pickle relish, water chestnuts, and chives in a medium-sized bowl.

Among the red trout and cakes made of oaten meal, there was an abundance of the famed honey of Carman itself, and sloak and dulse from the nearby sea, as well as its game: millicks, or periwinkles still in their shells, scallops and the meaty black sole.

Wild fowl stuffed with ocean grasses of dulse and laver surrounded the pig as did several varieties of steamed and boiled fish, including delicately poached salmon dressed with watercress.

Nobody had wanted to see another piece of dried dulse by spring, either.

We would watch the boats through the sky-glass, paddle in the water, gather shells and pebbles and mussels, and sit on the rocks and eat dulse, literally, by the yard.

The Dulse and Fire Minnow slid stealthily in our wake, their sister ships Asterias and Nenuphar not far behind.

They sat around its glassy blaze and ate some of their provisions: bannocks and dried fish, cheese, salty dulse, and red carrageen from the firth.