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Cavʹiare (3 syl.)

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Caviare to the general. Above the taste or comprehension of ordinary people. Caviare is a kind of pickle made from the roe of sturgeons, much esteemed in Muscovy. It is a dish for the great, but beyond the reach of the general public. (Hamlet, ii. 2.)

All popular talk about lacustrine villages and flint implements … is caviare to the multitude.”—Pall Mall Gazette,

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cave-dwellers
Cave In
Cavê ne literas Bellerophontis adferras
Cave of Achadh Aldai
Cave of Adullam (The)
Cave of Mammon
Caveat
Caveat Emptor
Cavell
Cavendish Tobacco
Caviare
Cavo-rilievo
Caxon
C. D
Cean
Ceca to Mecca (From)
Cecilia (St.)
Cecil’s Fast
Ced
Cedar
Cedilla

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Caviare