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Truffle   /trˈəfəl/   Listen
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Truffle  n.  Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (Tuber aestivum) are much esteemed as articles of food.
Truffle worm (Zool.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles.






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"Truffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... cutlets. Foie gras. Brown sauce. Macdoine of vegetables. Mashed potatoes. Truffle. ...
— The Skilful Cook - A Practical Manual of Modern Experience • Mary Harrison

... tablespoonful of tomato catsup, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley; add the meat; stand over the back part of the stove until thoroughly hot; serve on a heated platter garnished with triangular pieces of toasted bread. A few left-over olives, mushrooms, or even a chopped truffle, may be added. ...
— Made-Over Dishes • S. T. Rorer

... then, that everybody listened when the distinguished epicure launched out on the proper way to both acquire and serve so rare and toothsome a morsel as a truffle. ...
— Peter - A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero • F. Hopkinson Smith

... the Tower, a description which he had obtained from his residence near the Tower of David, and which distinguished him from his cousin, who was called Barizy of the Gate. Further on an Armenian from Stamboul, in his dark robes and black protuberant head-dress, resembling a colossal truffle, solaced himself with a cherry stick which reminded him of the Bosphorus, and he found a companion in this fashion in the young officer of a French brig-of-war anchored at Beiroot, and who had obtained leave to visit the Holy Land, ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli

... special cable to The Daily Thrill.)—While truffle-tracking in the Saratoga forest a corporal and three men of the United States Marines came upon what is believed to be a cache of Bolshevist arms. The cache contained six 9-inch howitzers, two hundred ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 30, 1919 • Various



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