Definitions for bisque

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Spelling: [bisk]
IPA: /bɪsk/

Bisque is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in bisque (beiqsu).

Definitions for bisque

noun

  1. a thick cream soup, especially of puréed shellfish or vegetables.
  2. ice cream made with powdered macaroons or nuts.
  3. a point, extra turn, or the like, as in court tennis or croquet.
  4. biscuit1 (def 4).
  5. Also called biscuit ware. vitreous china that is left unglazed.
  6. a pinkish-tan color.

adjective

  1. having the color bisque.

Origin of bisque

From French, dating back to 1640-50, of uncertain origin

Examples for bisque

In the distance a curtain of porphyry and bisque drew its shadow across the moon.

I assure you I shall appreciate anything from hardtack to bisque ice-cream.

bisque, bisk, n. a rich soup made of meat or fish slowly stewed and seasoned, crayfish soup.

The potter will glaze your work for you if you wish, or leave it in the bisque.

A bisque is one stroke which may be claimed at any time during a set.

The ice cream was made to look like wood, the caterer using a mixture of vanilla, chocolate, bisque and lemon flavors.

The bisque of almonds requires one pound blanched almonds, one heaping cup of sugar and two pints of cream.

And just to prove it I'll bet you a ball a hole from here in—no handicap—not even a bisque.

As it was I won in an uneventful six, and took with a bisque the short hole which followed.

I tell you: how would it be if we began with a bisque of crab?

Word Value for bisque
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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