Also 8 aspique. [a. F. aspic. Littré suggests its derivation from aspic asp, because it is ‘froid comme un aspic,’ a proverbial phrase in Fr.] A savory meat jelly, composed of and containing meat, fish, game, hard-boiled eggs, etc. Also attrib. in aspic-jelly.
1789. Mrs. Piozzi, France & It., I. 47. Cased in Chrystal like our aspiques.
1848. Thackeray, Van. Fair, lxii. (1866), 526. Died … of an aspic of plovers’ eggs.
1870. Disraeli, Lothair, xxi. 89. He extracted a couple of fat little birds from their bed of aspic jelly.
