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Broth

noun

Liquid in which meat and vegetables are simmered; used as a basis for e.g. soups or sauces. Synonym: stock.

A thin soup of meat or fish or vegetable stock.

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"Broth" Quotes from Famous Books

... clarified butter are the farrier's panaceas. Camels are cured by sheep's head broth, asses by chopping one ear, mules by cutting off the tail, and horses by ghee or a drench ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... hand in such a caressing way that it made me feel drowsy, and in another minute I had dropped off into a sound sleep. I did not wake again until some hours afterwards, when I was so refreshed and hungry that I was able to demolish a large basin of jelly-like chicken broth with some thin toast, ...

— The White Squall - A Story of the Sargasso Sea • John Conroy Hutcheson

... saying, 'There is the King's meat.' All precautionary duties were distinguished by the words 'in case.' One of the guards might be heard to say, 'I am in case in the forest of St. Germain.' In the evening they always brought the Queen a large bowl of broth, a cold roast fowl, one bottle of wine, one of orgeat, one of lemonade, and some other articles, which were called the 'in case' for the night. An old medical gentleman, who had been physician in ordinary to Louis ...

— Memoirs Of The Court Of Marie Antoinette, Queen Of France, Complete • Madame Campan

... ancient learned. I saw most of the first Roman emperors. I prevailed on the governor to call up Heliogabalus's cooks to dress us a dinner, but they could not show us much of their skill, for want of materials. A helot of Agesilaus made us a dish of Spartan broth, but I was not able to get down a ...

— Gulliver's Travels - into several remote nations of the world • Jonathan Swift

... her dressing room preparing to go home. Then the stage would be darkened. They would be putting the scenery away. She would be crossing the bare stage on her way home. Then she would be home, undressing, getting ready for bed, reading. She liked a cup of clear broth at night, or a drink of hot cocoa. It soothed and rested her. Besides, one is hungry after two and a half hours of high-tensioned, nerve-exhausting work. She was in bed usually ...

— Gigolo • Edna Ferber

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