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WELSH RABBIT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Welsh rabbit mean?
• WELSH RABBIT (noun)
The noun WELSH RABBIT has 1 sense:
1. cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast
Familiarity information: WELSH RABBIT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
rarebit; Welsh rabbit; Welsh rarebit
Hypernyms ("Welsh rabbit" is a kind of...):
dish (a particular item of prepared food)
Context examples
"Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted! Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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