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Definition of Cullises
1. cullis [n] - See also: cullis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cullises
Literary usage of Cullises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful Receipt Book: Adapted for Families in by William Augustus Henderson, David Hughson (1828)
"CHAPTER XL GRAVIES, cullises, and other SAUCES. IN the preceding chapters we
have, where a proper opportunity offered, directed the necessary sauces to be ..."
2. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"cullises were, in fact, savoury jellies ; but generally taken hot, as best suited
to sick persons. They that begin to pine of a consumption!, ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes ; with Additional Notes by Isaac Reed, Robert Dodsley, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"... not groans, and as he that melteth in a consumption is to be recur'd by M
cullises, not conceits ; so the feeding canker of my care, the never-dying ..."
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