See zephyrette on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1896, Fannie Merritt Farmer, The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book, page 461:",
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"ref": "1896, Ysaguirre, La Marca, Cold Dishes for Hot Weather, page 126:",
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"ref": "1912, American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record - Volume 60, page 63:",
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"ref": "2008, May E. Southworth, Midnight Feasts, →ISBN, page 83:",
"text": "As the liquor flows from the oysters, dip it out with a spoon and keep them as dry as possible, until they are plump. Sprinkle them with salt and pepper and add two tablespoonfuls of butter. Lay each one on a zephyrette and pour the liquor over.",
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"ref": "1863, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Levana ... Translated from the German, page 318:",
"text": "... and then the battles and struggles of these animals, the injuries inflicted on them by each other, and yet their continued existence: and, finally, this mingled, fluttering, hurting, killing, caressing, reproducing life becomes an infinite breath of life, wherein the individual life flies like a tiny zephyrette .",
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