caviar
IPA: kˈæviɑr
noun
- Roe of the sturgeon or of certain other large fish, considered a delicacy.
- (figurative) Something whose flavour is too fine for the vulgar taste.
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Examples of "caviar" in Sentences
- Just look at diamonds and caviar.
- It is to irony what caviar is to eggs.
- It keeps the rich in Bolly and caviar.
- Also take the example of Eggplant Caviar.
- Caviar is but the hard roe of the sturgeon.
- The caviar brings out a little Canadian flair.
- The caviar of the sturgeon is the most expensive.
- I added some masago (capelin caviar) to the cream cheese.
- It is a different kind of caviar compared to regular caviar.
- Astrakhan, at the delta, is the centre of the caviar industry.
- As caviar, it is of firmer texture than the more delicate Beluga caviar.
- However, I will single out newcomer Yael for having spoken the quote of the night, Is she having a bath in caviar?
- The Beluga caviar is apparently flown in from Iran five days ahead of her treatments at a beauty salon in South Kensington.
- Large number will still coward at the sound of fish eggs but will eat "caviar" - which also happens to be prepared without heat.
- CITES's approval also comes at a time when the US government, the world's leading importer of beluga caviar, is considering an outright ban.
- Though the term caviar is now widely used to describe any sort of lightly salted loose fish eggs, for many centuries it referred only to loose sturgeon eggs.
- The worldwide trade in caviar was effectively suspended today when the UN said it could not approve export quotas for the expensive delicacy for the coming year.
- The first recorded usage of the term "caviar," which derives from the Turkish word "khavyar," is attributed to Batu Kahn, Ghenghis Khan's grandson, in a written description of a meal he ate in 1240 at a monastery north of Moscow.
- The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) said that it was unable to set export quotas for the Caspian Sea basin, where 90 per cent of the world's caviar is produced, because it did not have enough information about the region's fish population and the illegal trade in the eggs.
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