Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
mulligatawny .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An East Indian curry soup.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
mulligatawny .
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Examples
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The day of your destiny's over and the star of your fate is in the mullagatawny.
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One day a can of mullagatawny soup and a can of apricots were handed out to him simultaneously and without explanations.
Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things Henry Van Dyke 1892
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-- Coffee in the seventeenth century, inoculation in that which followed; since which we have had now and then a new dance and a new game at cards, curry and mullagatawny soup from the East Indies, turtle from the West, and that earthly nectar to which the East contributes its arrack, and the West its limes and its rum.
Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808
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