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Quiche

noun

A member of the Mayan people of south central Guatemala.

A tart filled with rich unsweetened custard; often contains other ingredients (as cheese or ham or seafood or vegetables).

The Mayan language spoken by the Quiche.

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"Quiche" Quotes from Famous Books

... livid. The lady was frightened; but on this occasion, contrary to what is usually the case, fear became attractive. She leaned over the young man, gazed earnestly, fixedly at his pale and cold face, which she almost touched, then imprinted a rapid kiss upon De Quiche's left hand, who, trembling as if an electric shock had passed through him, awoke a second time, opened his large eyes, incapable of recognition, and again fell into a state of complete insensibility. "Come," she said to her companion, "we must not remain here any longer; I shall be committing ...

— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

Words linked to "Quiche" : Mayan, Maya, tart, Mayan language