(n.) A point taken by the receiver of odds in the game of tennis; also, an extra innings allowed to a weaker player in croquet.
(n.) A white soup made of crayfish.
Example Sentences:
(1) The portion of my sample prawn orzo was a modest but polished plate of food, the dense bisque and silky grains of pasta elegantly punctuated by small bursts of tart, sweet semi-dried tomato.
(2) The Spanish classic arroz negro pays homage to both old country and new: instead of the standard squid ink and fish stock, it’s made with crab bisque and chilmole (the blackened chilli sauce of the Yucatán) and crowned with calamari stuffed with pork scratchings.
(3) Serves 1 50ml garlic-infused Black Cow Vodka (1 lightly crushed clove in 1 bottle of vodka, infused for 2 hours) 20ml crab bisque (fish stock will work or better still clam juice) 10ml Fino sherry 10 ml lemon juice 15ml Dorsetshire sauce (Worcestershire will work, but reduce to 10ml) 5ml Tabasco chipotle sauce A pinch of salt Tomato juice 1 Build all ingredients over ice in a large glass.
(4) There are recognisable foodstuffs, but mingled in compositions that flout credibility – can there be such a thing as "cold corn chowder lemon bisque with peanuts and dill", or "kiwi mustard"?
(5) Almost as successful was a Kaiser bisque model of an American bald eagle by Gerd Pitterkoff, which was a gift from the then US president, Ronald Reagan.
Potage
Definition:
(n.) See Pottage.
Example Sentences:
(1) What she has embraced instead is a homemade belief system, a potage of pyramids, squares and circles.
(2) Plastic-potted ready meals and potages are “hand cooked” or “hand crafted”; some bacon has even been “hand rubbed with sea salt”.