duck-egg
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of duck-egg
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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The dish was a study in circles: the meat pressed flat and dotted with pickled carrots, moons of sumac-dusted duck-egg aioli, microgreens, and blueberries.
From Salon • May 19, 2024
Located in the state’s Southern Tier close to the Pennsylvania border, it offers vistas of farmland, dotted with several big clapboard houses painted a duck-egg blue.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022
At the Dynasty Seafood Restaurant, which is the place for Chinese families in Vancouver to gather, I had deep-fried Alaskan king crab with salted duck-egg sauce.
From The Guardian • Dec. 8, 2019
Painted gleaming white and duck-egg blue, with touches of gilt and crisp navy accents, the room is rustic in a Martha Stewart way.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2013
He was a saturnine sort of man, with a hooked nose, a skin like parchment, and a perfectly bald sugar-loaf head, surmounted at the top by a wen as large as a duck-egg.
From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)
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