Forms: 7 biske, 8–9 bisque, bisk. [a. F. bisque crayfish soup.]

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  a.  A rich soup made by boiling down birds, etc. b. spec. Crayfish soup.

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1647.  R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 267. Beccafico … one of the greatest rarities they [the Italians] can put into a bisk or ollio.

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1715.  trans. Pancirollus’ Rerum Mem., I. IV. x. 181. A Bisk of all sorts of Fish.

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1731.  Bailey, Bisk, Bisque [in Cookery], a rich kind of pottage, made of Quails, Capons, fat Pullets, and more especially of pigeons roasted.

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1741.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, I. ii. 138. To make a Bisque of Pidgeons.

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1882.  Mrs. H. Reeve, Cookery, xiii. 90. Bisque or Crayfish Soup.

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