Consomme vs Bullion - What's the difference?
consomme | bullion |
a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly
* 1922 , , Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 132:
A bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.
(obsolete) base or uncurrent coin
* Sylvester
(obsolete) showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc.
* Skelton
(obsolete) A heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between consomme and bullion
is that consomme is a clear broth made from reduced meat or vegetable stock, served either hot as a soup or chilled as a jelly while bullion is a bulk quantity of precious metal, usually gold or silver, assessed by weight and typically cast as ingots.consomme
English
Noun
(en noun)- For after washing at the hotel at Patras, Jacob had followed the tram lines a mile or so out; and followed them a mile or so back; he had met several droves of turkeys; several strings of donkeys; had got lost in back streets; had read advertisements of corsets and Maggi's consommé ; children had trodden on his toes; the place smelt of bad cheese; and he was glad to find himself suddenly come out opposite his hotel.
bullion
English
Noun
- And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, / And damn for bullion , go for current now.
- The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound.