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Webster 1913 Edition
Caviare
{
Cav′i-ar
,Ca-viare′
, }Noun.
[F.
caviar
, fr. It. caviale
, fr. Turk. Havīār
.] The roes of the sturgeon, prepared and salted; – used as a relish, esp. in Russia.
☞ Caviare was considered a delicacy, by some, in Shakespeare’s time, but was not relished by most. Hence Hamlet says of a certain play. “'T was caviare to the general,” i. e., above the taste of the common people.