calipee

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælɪpiː/

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Noun

calipee (countable and uncountable, plural calipees)

1. A food of the yellowish material found inside the lower half of a turtle's carapace (shell).
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I:

     The tortoise—as the alderman of Bristol, well learned in eating, knows by much experience—besides the delicious calipash and calipee, contains many different kinds of food.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XXVI, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     Dobbin helped him to it; for the lady of the house, before whom the tureen was placed, was so ignorant of the contents that she was going to help Mr. Sedley without bestowing upon him either calipash or calipee.

Alternative forms

• calapee, callipee

See also

• calipash