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English
Noun
mock-turtle (uncountable)
- mock turtle soup
1827, Maria Eliza Rundell, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor, page 341:This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle.
1828, Thomas Hood, “The Logicians”, in The Portfolio, of Amusement and Instruction, in History, Science, Literature, the Fine Arts, &c., number 110, page 386:O, this is he that disembodied matter,
And prov’d that incorporeal corporations
Put nothing in no platter,
And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations.
1877, A. G. Payne, Common-Sense Papers on Cookery, page 217:Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir.