birdsnest soup

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Travellers have⟳ so often spoken of birdsnest soup, canine hams, and grimalkin fricasees, rats, snakes, worms, and other culinary novelties, served up in equally strange ways, that their readers get⟳ the idea that these articles form⟳ as large a proportion of the food as their description does of the narrative. […] The famous birdsnest soup is prepared from the nest of a swallow⟳ (Hirundo esculenta) found in caves and damp places in some islands of the Indian Archipelago; […]”

“Birdsnest soup was the first course, but following came only American dishes.”

“When I tell⟳ you, sir, his grandfather was scalped by the Sioux forty years ago, and he has a profound dislike for birdsnest soup, you know⟳ everything I’ve spotted from a quick look⟳ round.”

“In Southeast Asia, swifts’ nests are gathered for the famous curative delicacy “birdsnest soup,” featuring filmy masses like⟳ boiled eggwhites—actually the special gluey saliva swifts work⟳ up for constructing nests.”

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