Civey
//ˈsɪvi// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood. archaic, uncountable
"In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...]."
Example
More examples"In the kitchens the famous cooks were preparing menus which included, for one course alone: ballock broth, caudle ferry, lampreys en gelatine, oysters in civey, eels in sorré, baked trout, brawn in mustard, numbles of a hart, pigs farsed [...]."
Etymology
From Middle English cyvee, from Old French civé; equivalent to chive + -y.
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