cep
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cep
1860–65; < French cèpe < Gascon cep mushroom, tree trunk < Latin cip ( p ) us boundary stone, pillar
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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
“Aint nobody works much in dis country cep de boll-weevil, noways,” he says.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
“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
To him the smaller and tamer cep riò replied with a sweetly modulated solfeggio of extraordinary precision, and I awoke.
From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by I. Stone Sanpietro
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