Welsh rabbit
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Welsh rabbit
n.
A dish made of melted cheese, milk or cream, seasonings, and sometimes ale, served hot over toast or crackers.
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Welsh rabbit
n
(Cookery) a savoury dish consisting of melted cheese sometimes mixed with milk, seasonings, etc, on hot buttered toast. Also called: Welsh rarebit or rarebit
[C18: a fanciful coinage; rarebit is a later folk-etymological variant]
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Welsh′ rab′bit
n.
a dish of melted cheese, usu. mixed with ale or beer, served over toast.
Also called Welsh′ rare′bit.Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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| Noun | 1. |  Welsh rabbit - cheese melted with ale or beer served over toastdish - a particular item of prepared food; "she prepared a special dish for dinner" |
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