What is "consomme"

Usage examples of "consomme".

All these concerns were simmering in his mind, like so much consomme, as yet unjelled, when he returned to his quarters to find a message from the lady in question: Could he help her find a dressmaker?

She settled for consomme Madrilene, salmon cutlets Mornay, crown roast of lamb with saffron rice and then, since strawberries were to he had, a meringue gateau, topped with lashings of cream.

Taking her first spoonful of the consomme, she thought of Barrington and his manipulations to have everything, including her, changed to suit him.

She felt extremely green and new to it all, as she ordered consomme and an omelet.

The rest of the meal, the guests would get drunk and eat their Madeira Consomme and try to find clues to who among them was a psychotic killer.

As a steward slipped a plate of consommé in front of him, he made a mental note to ask Amira about it later.

I'll have the seafood salad with avocado, the consommé, the loin of lamb with béarnaise sauce, a baked potato, and the artichoke hearts.

A drop of hot consommé on a white evening frock, worn for the first time.

Leighton served consommé, and Tony picked up his silver spoon with a dreamy feeling of unreality which psychologists have noted and only badly explained.

Lunch was choice of corn chowder or jellied consomme, cheese souffle, fried chicken, corned beef and cabbage, hominy grits with syrup, egg plant au gratin, little pearl onions scalloped with cucumbers, baked stuffed tomatoes, sweet potato surprise, German-fried Irish potatoes, tossed endive, coleslaw with sour cream, pineapple and cottage cheese with lettuce.

The usual banquet fare: fruit salad, consomme, protosoy fillet, steam-table peas and carrots, flagons of California Burgundy, lumpy baked Alaska, everything served with maximum clatter and minimum grace by stony-faced members of downtrodden minority groups.