Dulse - What does it mean?
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A seaweed of a reddish-brown color (Palmaria palmata ) which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland.
* 1997 , ‘Egil's Saga’, tr. Bernard Scudder, The Sagas of Icelanders , Penguin 2001, page 151:
* 2002 , Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 90:
dulse
English
Alternative forms
* dillisk * dilskNoun
(en noun)- Then Egil said, ‘That happens if you eat dulse , it makes you even thirstier.’
- They worked together on their father's patch: desperately, hungrily, from dawn to nightfall; dragging up dulse from the shore to nourish the stones; [...] but nothing much grew except their own sense of separation.