See Also: Bollito misto(recipes)
bollito misto(dictionary)
dark(2)(dictionary)
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Dark light(health)
Children of the dark(health)

Bollito misto (recipes) and dark(2) (iou)


Bollito misto (recipes)


An Italian dish of various kinds of meat - usually chicken, ox tongue and pigs' trotters - boiled in stock. It' s served with sauces that vary from region to region, but salsa verde and mostarda di frutta (a whole fruit preserve with hot mustard in sweet syrup) are common accompaniments. Bollito misto is traditionally served on New Year' s Eve in northern Italy, with lentils and preserved, candied fruit. The meat represents good Health, the lentils wealth and the fruit good spirits.

dark(2) (iou)



dark noun1. [d¨»:k] ME.
[from the adjective.]
The absence of light, darkness; a dark time or place; night, nightfall. ME.
after dark at night. dark of the moon the time when there is no moonlight. leap in the dark, shot in the dark fig. an action of which the outcome cannot be foreseen. whistle in the dark keep up one's courage, esp. by a show of confidence.
Defoe The Darks of Hell. J. Rhys I..stayed away till dark. A. Lurie I couldn't see his face in the dark.
Obscurity; secrecy; ignorance. E17.
be in the dark, keep in the dark be, keep, in a state of ignorance about some matter.
A dark colour or shade; esp. a part of a painting in shadow. L17.
J. Rosenberg Rembrandt's light becomes most selective and evocative, through its peculiar interpenetration with the darks.
Comb.: dark-adaptation adjustment of the eye to low intensity of light; dark-adapted adjective (of the eye) adjusted to low intensity of light; darkfall dusk, nightfall.
darksome adjective (now chiefly poet.) somewhat dark (lit. & fig.); gloomy, sombre, obscure: M16.