caviare
“to the general,”
HAMLET, ii. 2. 430.
Caviare is the roe of a kind of sturgeon, and of
other fish, pickled, salted, and dried, which came, and still comes, from Russia. Hamlet
means that the play in question was of too high a relish for the palates of the multitude.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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