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civey

/ˈsɪvi/

civey noun: a kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood.

Noun

civey (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) A kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood.
    • 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 [...].1940, TH White, The Ill-Made Knight
    • Were there served, as in former times, a wine of Grenache and roasts, veal pasties, pimpernel pasties, black pudding and sausages, hares in civey and cutlets, pea soup, salt meat and great joints, a soringue of eels and other fish...1954, Austryn Wainhouse, Hedyphagetica, page 132

Forms of civey

alternative formcivy

Origin of civey

From Middle English cyvee, from Old French civé; equivalent to chive + -ey.

Questions about civey

What does civey mean?
Civey means a kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood.
What part of speech is civey?
Civey is a noun.
How do you pronounce civey?
Civey is pronounced /ˈsɪvi/.

Words near civey in the dictionary

  1. civet coffee
  2. civeted
  3. civetlike
  4. civetone
  5. civets
  6. civey
  7. Civi
  8. civic
  9. civic center
  10. civic centers
  11. civic centre

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