gazpacho en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Spanish gazpacho, perhaps via Mozarabic *gazpelağo from Latin gazophylacium (“treasure-chest in a church”), alluding to the diversity of its contents. Alternatively, related to Spanish caspicias (“remnants”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) A cold soup of Spanish origin, made with olive oil, vinegar, bread and raw vegetables such as tomatoes, garlic, onion, cucumber and sweet peppers.
Seville is the home of gazpacho, a delicious cold soup of cucumber, tomato, and miscellaneous garnishings.
1964, Jan Morris, “Plural Spain”, in Spain, Faber and Faber, published 2008, →ISBN:First, as to the title: Gazpacho is the name of a dish universal in, and peculiar to, Spain. It is a sort of cold soup, made of bread, pot-herbs, oil, and water. Its materials are easily come by, and its concoction requires no skill.
1850, William George Clark, Gazpacho: Or, Summer Months in Spain, page v:He will eat a plateful of gazpacho or puchero, a sardine, half a roll of bread, and drink clear water as often as wine. Food is always of secondary importance: he ranks it after his novia, after his cigarillo, after the bulls.
1904, L. Higgin, Eugène E. Street, Spanish Life in Town and Country:[…] I’d rather have my fill of gazpacho than be subject to the misery of a meddling doctor who kills me with hunger, and I’d rather lie in summer under the shade of an oak, and in winter wrap myself in a double sheepskin jacket in freedom, than go to bed between holland sheets and dress in sables under the restraint of a government.
1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter LIII, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, pages 367–369:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| gazpachos | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (17)
eo malvarma tomatsupo (cold soup of Spanish origin) · fr gaspacho (cold soup of Spanish origin) · ast gazpachu (cold soup of Spanish origin) · de Gazpacho (cold soup of Spanish origin) · gl gaspacho (cold soup of Spanish origin) · pt gaspacho (cold soup of Spanish origin) · mr गाज्पाचो (cold soup of Spanish origin) · pl gazpacho (cold soup of Spanish origin) · cmn 西班牙凍湯 /西班牙冻汤 (cold soup of Spanish origin) · ko 가스파초 (cold soup of Spanish origin) · pt caspacho (cold soup of Spanish origin) · fi gazpacho (cold soup of Spanish origin) · eo gaspaĉo (cold soup of Spanish origin) · ja ガスパチョ (cold soup of Spanish origin) · ca gaspatxo (cold soup of Spanish origin) · ru гаспа́чо (cold soup of Spanish origin) · es gazpacho (cold soup of Spanish origin)