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  • noun Plural form of comestible.
  • noun Anything that can be eaten; food

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Examples

  • The third specializes in English comestibles, the sort of thing that Englishmen abroad are supposed to yearn for: Bird's custard, Marmite, Bovril, Jammie Dodgers.

    Brits Behaving Badly Gill, A. A. 2007

  • The third specializes in English comestibles, the sort of thing that Englishmen abroad are supposed to yearn for: Bird's custard, Marmite, Bovril, Jammie Dodgers.

    Brits Behaving Badly Gill, A. A. 2007

  • Do Zagat and Michelin award extra kudos or contain comments like "the hors d'oeuvres, though engulfed by a sea of balsamico can only be described, politely, as dismal; the main course gave the impression of having probably been recycled several times; HOWEVER the sanitary facilities whither these" comestibles "were swiftly dispensed with justify an overall 1* criteria.

    Propeller Most Popular Stories 2009

  • Moses was talkng about taking away his guns from his "cold, dead hands" but The Dawg is not concerned about firearms but comestibles so here is my story.

    From My Cold, Dead Hands 2009

  • Moses was talkng about taking away his guns from his "cold, dead hands" but The Dawg is not concerned about firearms but comestibles so here is my story.

    From My Cold, Dead Hands 2009

  • It gives you a small, sustainable glow, knowing that you're eating healthily and avoiding all those pre-packaged comestibles.

    Go green before it becomes compulsory | Kevin McKenna 2011

  • Migration for some birds, maybe all, does not seem to be a do-or-die, single-destination journey, but a more leisurely series of shorter flights with stops at known places with good comestibles.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • These foreigners with a false sense of bravado play this game by consuming comestibles not prepared in keeping with standard hygeinic practices most of us have come to expect and demand and this becomes a game lacking in rational thought and more about that later but for now I must run an errand for my better half before she whups my ass so I will continue this posting later.

    On Crossing the MoMo Bridge 2009

  • In case you are wondering; in this context I am not referring to young Girl Guides, or delicious chocolate comestibles but to Gordon Brown's skilful habit of answering a question by using a dodgy statistic to not quite answer the question he was asked but one more to his liking.

    The Today programme and "Brownies" Not a sheep 2009

  • Moses was talkng about taking away his guns from his "cold, dead hands" but The Dawg is not concerned about firearms but comestibles so here is my story.

    From My Cold, Dead Hands 2009

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