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Congee

noun
1.
A Chinese rice gruel eaten for breakfast.  Synonym: jook.
2.
(architecture) a concave molding.  Synonym: conge.
3.
Formal permission to depart.  Synonym: conge.
4.
An abrupt and unceremonious dismissal.  Synonym: conge.
verb
1.
Depart after obtaining formal permission.
2.
Perform a ceremonious bow.  Synonym: conge.





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"Congee" Quotes from Famous Books



... relinquishing her, Mr. Sullivan Smith remarked: 'Oh! sir, the law of it, where a lady's concerned! You're one for evictions, I should guess, and the anti-human process. It's that letter of the law that stands between you and me and mine and yours. But you've got your congee, and my blessing ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... he opens the door and gives us our congee, the most noble in the world; but not offering to give us a bed, we are forced to go out of doors and grope our way through the snow to the cart-shed, and seek a shelter there from the wind, which was all the keener and more bitter for ...
— A Set of Rogues • Frank Barrett
... entertainer with some austerity, rebuked him for not making persons of quality acquainted with each other, that they might exchange courtesies before they mingled with other folks. He then made as handsome and courtly a congee to his new acquaintance as a man maimed in foot and hand could do; and, observing he had known my lord, his father, bid him welcome to London, and hoped he should ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott


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