Forms: 7 biske, 89 bisque, bisk. [a. F. bisque crayfish soup.]
a. A rich soup made by boiling down birds, etc. b. spec. Crayfish soup.
1647. R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 267. Beccafico one of the greatest rarities they [the Italians] can put into a bisk or ollio.
1715. trans. Pancirollus Rerum Mem., I. IV. x. 181. A Bisk of all sorts of Fish.
1731. Bailey, Bisk, Bisque [in Cookery], a rich kind of pottage, made of Quails, Capons, fat Pullets, and more especially of pigeons roasted.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. ii. 138. To make a Bisque of Pidgeons.
1882. Mrs. H. Reeve, Cookery, xiii. 90. Bisque or Crayfish Soup.