made dish

English

Noun

made dish (plural made dishes)

  1. (archaic) A dish made of several different ingredients. [from 16th c.]
    • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 332:
      ‘As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it was a wretched attempt.’
    • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The Book of Snobs‎, London: Punch, page 71:
      Suppose you get in cheap made dishes from the pastrycook’s, and hire a couple of green-grocers, or carpet-beaters, to figure as footmen, dismissing honest MOLLY, who waits on common days, and bedizening your table (ordinarily ornamented with willow-pattern crockery) with twopenny-halfpenny Birmingham plate.
    • 1880, Charles Bullock, Home Words for Heart and Hearth, page 199:
      Viand of Cyprus was a made dish, of fowl brawn, almond milk, rice, and spices, with strips of toast set round the dish.

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