tripe-de-roche

[ treep-duh-rawsh, -rohsh ]

noun

1. rock tripe.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tripe-de-roche¹

1800–10; < French: rock tripe

Example Sentences

Tripe de roche, for which see our volume ii, p. 156, note 70.

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Among the former the tripe de roche is the most capable of supporting life.

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That night all we had to sustain nature was the leather soup Alick spoke of, with the addition of some tripe de roche.

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We were dependent for subsistence on what animals we could catch, and, failing that, on "tripe de roche."

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On reaching the rock, they saw what Norman had meant by the words tripe de roche (rock-tripe).

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