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Definition of Souper
1. Noun. (Ireland historical) (during the Irish famine) a Protestant supplying food, (usually soup), to the starving if they rejected their Catholic beliefs. ¹
2. Noun. Sometimes referred to the person who had changed religions, rather than the person encouraging them. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Souper
1. a soup dispenser [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Souper
Literary usage of Souper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, Ramsay Weston Phipps (1891)
"... of Toulon—Le souper de Beaucaire—Napoleon's mission to Genoa— His arrest—His
autographical ... souper ..."