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syllabub
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Syllabub (or solybubbe, sullabub, sullibib, sullybub, sullibub—there is considerable variation in spelling) is an English sweet dish described by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a drink or dish made of milk (freq. as drawn from the cow) or cream, curdled ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. spiced hot milk with rum or wine [syn: sillabub ] sweetened cream beaten with wine or liquor [syn: sillabub ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A drink dating back to the 16th century in various forms, comprising 1 part sherry to 3 parts milk, with nutmeg and optionally brandy. Served topped with clotted cream and sugar, and sprinkled with cinnamon or more nutmeg. (Reference: ''Australian ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At the celebration breakfast there were syllabubs. ▪ Keep the syllabubs in a cool place - not in the refrigerator - until you are ready to serve them. ▪ Max Beerbohm's generation must have been the last to which the delicious ...
Usage examples of syllabub.
He noticed neither the shimmering candles nor the fiddle, fife and drum, nor the orgeat and syllabub.
The list of drinks given in the journal before me includes punch, cider, strong beer, porter, grog, madeira, port, claret, sherry, toddy, sangaree, and syllabub.
In a cool and superior tone Nathaniel hardly recognized, Elizabeth ordered a meal that would have fed them for days: white soup, a fricando of veal, vegetable pudding, a basket of breads, raspberry syllabub, coffee, and an expensive bottle of claret.
Angela, serving up tiny pancakes filled with mushrooms, lamb cutlets with a host of vegetables and a syllabub to follow, and there was time to sit over their coffee before leaving for the theatre.
Harold, I'd far liefer be cauld clay, worm-food, than end me days an old, doddering, toothless mon as could eat nothing save gruel and syllabubs, all me strength gone and unable to properly swive even the youngest, bonniest, liveliest girl.
Syllabub was served at most meals: One part milk, one part cream, one part ale, flavored with lemon and lime, topped with cinnamon bark.
They sidled up to the bar and soon learned that the fare, besides clam chowder, was a retro combination of burgers, syllabub, and mead.
Over the fortnight which had followed, as the raging fevers began to abate and the young man began to find it possible to hold down thin broths, syllabubs, watered porridge, and wines, as the festering sores on his body began to scab over and heal, as the hair which had fallen out began to grow back again, the king had spoken a few times briefly with the man of York who had wrought so wonderful a thing for him, but had always found it necessary to rush off to other matters.
Harold, I'd far liefer be cauld clay, wormfood, than end me days an old, doddering, toothless mon as could eat nothing save gruel and syllabubs, all me strength gone and unable to properly swive even the youngest, bonniest, liveliest girl.
Jellies, trifles, syllabubs, puptons of fruit, and coffee creams in cups of almond paste rounded off what the Marquesa called a light merienda.
To lie in bed, cosseted with hot-water bags and flannel chest-warmers, supping gruel, syllabubs, and tansy tea -- that is the ideal state on a vile, rainy, soggy day like this.