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calipash

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cal·i·pash  (kl-psh, kl-psh)
n.
An edible, gelatinous, greenish substance lying beneath the upper shell of a turtle.
[Possibly alteration of Spanish carapacho, carapace.]
calipash, callipash [ˈkælɪˌpæʃ]
n
(Cookery) (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) the greenish glutinous edible part of the turtle found next to the upper shell, considered a delicacy
[perhaps changed from Spanish carapacho carapace]


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The tortoise--as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience--besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food; nor can the learned reader be ignorant, that in human nature, though here collected under one general name, is such prodigious variety, that a cook will have sooner gone through all the several species of animal and vegetable food in the world, than an author will be able to exhaust so extensive a subject.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee.
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