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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

bisque¹ / bisk/ • n. a rich, creamy soup typically made with shellfish, esp. lobster. bisque² • n. an extra turn, point, or stroke allowed to a weaker player in croquet or court tennis. bisque³ • n. 1. fired unglazed pottery: using bisque for doll heads [as adj.] bisque figurines. 2. a light brown color: shades of bisque and taupe. • adj. light brown in color.

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bisque

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

bisque rich (esp. crayfish) soup. XVII. — F. bisque, of unkn. orig.

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bisque

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition | 2005 | | Copyright

bisque Thick rich soup made from fish or shellfish.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

bisque •Basque, Monégasque •ask, bask, cask, flask, Krasnoyarsk, mask, masque, task •facemask •arabesque, burlesque, Dantesque, desk, grotesque, humoresque, Junoesque, Kafkaesque, Moresque, picaresque, picturesque, plateresque, Pythonesque, Romanesque, sculpturesque, statuesque •bisque, brisk, disc, disk, fisc, frisk, risk, whisk •laserdisc • obelisk • basilisk •odalisque • tamarisk • asterisk •mosque, Tosk •kiosk • Nynorsk • brusque •busk, dusk, husk, musk, rusk, tusk •subfusc • Novosibirsk •mollusc (US mollusk) • damask •Vitebsk •Aleksandrovsk, Sverdlovsk •Khabarovsk • Komsomolsk •Omsk, Tomsk •Gdansk, Murmansk, Saransk •Smolensk •Chelyabinsk, Minsk •Donetsk, Novokuznetsk •Irkutsk, Yakutsk

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