kickshaw
Collocations
3ADJ.
simple
VERB + KICKSHAW
dish
KICKSHAW + NOUN
persian
Definitions
noun
A dainty or delicacy.
Some Pigeons Davy, a couple of ſhort-legg'd Hennes: a / ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tine Kickſhawes, / tell William Cooke.
Allow me now to recommend this dish— / A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook, / Such as is served at the great King’s second table.
A trinket or gewgaw.
Art thou good at theſe kicke-chawſes Knight?
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3Some Pigeons Davy, a couple of ſhort-legg'd Hennes: a / ioynt of Mutton, and any pretty little tine Kickſhawes, / tell William Cooke.
WiktionaryAllow me now to recommend this dish— / A simple kickshaw by your Persian cook, / Such as is served at the great King’s second table.
WiktionaryThe "Penny Magazine" for 1842 has a good and suggestive paper on "Feasts and Entertainments," with extracts from some of the early dramatists and a woodcut of "a new French cook, to devise fine kicksh
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