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Meaning of Mulligatawny | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1
mʌlɪɡəˈtɔːni

Definitions

An Indian soup having a meat base and curry seasoning.

countable, uncountable

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Examples

“At the top was a cod's shoulders and head, whose intellectual faculties were rather over much developed; and at the bottom was soup called mulligatawny—some indefinite mixture of curry-powder and ducks' feet, the first spoonful of which called from its master a look of thunder and lightning up the table.”
“Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car. Mulligatawny soup, poached turbot, roast leg of lamb—the usual railway dinner.”

CEFR level

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