civey
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English cyvee, from Old French civé; equivalent to chive + -y.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪvi/
Noun
civey (uncountable)
- (archaic) A kind of chive sauce served with game or seafood.
- 1940, TH White, The Ill-Made Knight:
- 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:
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