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made dish

made dish noun: a dish made of several different ingredients.

Noun

made dish (plural made dishes)

  1. (archaic) A dish made of several different ingredients.
    • ‘As for Maclaurin's imitation of a made dish, it was a wretched attempt.’1791, James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 332
    • Suppose you get in cheap made dishes from the pastrycook’s, and hire a couple of green-grocers, or carpet-beaters, to figure as footmen, dismissing honest MOLLY, who waits on common days, and bedizening your table (ordinarily ornamented with willow-pattern crockery) with twopenny-halfpenny...1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 19, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch, page 71

Forms of made dish

pluralmade dishes

Questions about made dish

What does made dish mean?
Made dish means a dish made of several different ingredients.
What part of speech is made dish?
Made dish is a noun.
What is the plural of made dish?
The plural of made dish is made dishes.

Words near made dish in the dictionary

  1. made capital out of
  2. made certain
  3. made common cause
  4. made contact with
  5. made conversation
  6. made dish
  7. made dishes
  8. made do
  9. made do and mended
  10. made down
  11. made ends meet

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