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Hard-boiled egg

noun

An egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify. Synonym: hard-cooked egg.

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"Hard-boiled egg" Quotes from Famous Books

... her the pearls and had kissed her on the forehead. The pearls were very beautiful, but the kiss had been distinctly disagreeable. The Senator waxed his moustaches to make them stay up, as many men did then, and she thought that if a cold hard-boiled egg, surrounded with bristles like a hair-brush, had touched her forehead, the sensation would have been very much the same, and she shook her delicate shoulders in disgust at the thought, and slowly rubbed the offended spot ...

— Stradella • F(rancis) Marion Crawford

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... had been having a kind of high tea on tables laid across trestles on the lawn, and one of them, using his knife as a bricklayer uses his trowel, was luxuriously spreading a layer of apple and plum jam upon a stratum of hard-boiled egg, which reposed on a bed-rock of bread and butter, the whole representing a most interesting geological formation and producing a startling ...

— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan

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... stared the girl looked upon him calmly. A lunch basket stood beside her, and she held a dainty sandwich in one hand and a hard-boiled egg in the other, eating with an evident appetite that ...

— The Marvelous Land of Oz • L. Frank Baum

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Words linked to "Hard-boiled egg" : coddled egg, boiled egg, Easter egg