lining of the stomach of a ruminant (especially a bovine) used as food
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Tripe \Tripe\, n. [OE. tripe, F. tripe; of uncertain origin; cf. Sp. & Pg. tripa, It. trippa, OD. tripe, W. tripa, Armor. stripen.] 1. The large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.
How say you to a fat tripe finely broiled ? --Shak.
2. The entrails; hence, humorously or in contempt, the belly; -- generally used in the plural. --Howell.
On Tuesdays, diners are offered tripe, on Thursdays bollito misto, on Fridays Italian fish soup.
The "subproducts" include heads, legs, ears and tripe.
In spring you might get drob, a cake of lamb tripe which was translated for me as 'mixed organs'. It was liberally sprinkled with pepper and bound with an egg.
This, I was told, was what used to sustain the Christian janissaries, elite troops, in the Ottoman army. It translates as 'sour stomach soup' and is made from tripe.
What possessed you to allow that kind of tripe? I canceled my Washington Post subscription after five years of watching female chauvinism creep off the Style page onto the editorial page and then the front page.