tripe-de-roche

[ treep-duh-rawsh, -rohsh ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

1800–10; < French: rock tripe

Tripe de roche, for which see our volume ii, p. 156, note 70.

Among the former the tripe de roche is the most capable of supporting life.

That night all we had to sustain nature was the leather soup Alick spoke of, with the addition of some tripe de roche.

We were dependent for subsistence on what animals we could catch, and, failing that, on "tripe de roche."

On reaching the rock, they saw what Norman had meant by the words tripe de roche (rock-tripe).

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