salmi
IPA: sˈɑɫmi
noun
- (rare) A rich stew or ragout, especially of game.
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Examples of "salmi" in Sentences
- What an admirable _salmi_ this is; undoubtedly the final end of the pheasant.
- This is very good to surround grilled chicken or turkey legs, or for a salmi of duck or hare.
- The salmi which followed it was good, and even the Feodora chef could not have sent up a better rum omelette.
- – Henry made a "salmi" of the quail for breakfast that was truly delicious: I could be a gourmet, if I could always feed on such salmis.
- A salmi is an oldfangled, richly flavored game stew — often served, like chipped beef, over toast — that was a delicacy popular in the 1890s.
- He was smoking a cigarette, with an untasted salmi of something on his plate and a half-empty bottle of Sauterne before him, and he was quite silent.
- This is a nice mode of serving the remains of roasted game, but when a superlative salmi is desired, the birds must be scarcely more than half roasted for it.
- But we have no time to dwell upon our personal fascinations, or to speculate upon the cause of their increase within the last half hour; no eyes have we save for that Lucullian _salmi_ steaming before us; and, like ourselves, all around us are absorbed in absorbing.
- I like to see them wink at a glass of claret, as if they had an intimate acquaintance with it, and discuss a salmi — poor boys — it is only when they grow old that they know they know nothing of the science, when perhaps their conscience whispers them that the science is in itself little worth, and that a leg of mutton and content is as good as the dinners of pontiffs.
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