cep
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cep
1860–65; < French cèpe < Gascon cep mushroom, tree trunk < Latin cip ( p ) us boundary stone, pillar
Example Sentences
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The menu includes blue lobster and crab followed by Bresse poultry and a gratin of cep mushrooms prepared, respectively, by French chefs Anne-Sophie Pic and Yannick Alléno.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
Avoid dead things and choose the dish with morels, cep or charred broccoli.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2018
“Who else gwine raise her cep me? Aint I raised ev’y one of y’all?”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“Aint nobody works much in dis country cep de boll-weevil, noways,” he says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
The first sensation I had of being alive was when the two heralds of the morn, the cep plôt and the cep riò announced with their musical notes the dawn of another day.
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone
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