• Mock-turtle

    Full definition of mock-turtle

    Noun

    mock-turtle

    (uncountable)
    1. mock turtle soup
      • 1827, Maria Eliza Rundell, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, page 341:This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.
      • 1828, Thomas Hood, “The Logicians” in The Portfolio, of Amusement and Instruction, in History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c., number 110, page 386:O, this is he that disembodied matter,
        And prov’d that incorporeal corporations
        Put nothing in no platter,
        And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.
      • 1877, A. G. Payne, Common-Sense Papers on Cookery, page 217:Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir.
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