cal·i·pee (k l  -p  , kl-p)n. An edible, gelatinous, yellowish substance lying beneath the lower shell of a turtle. [Possibly alteration of calipash.] |
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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. |
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