All 3 Uses
essence
in
The Princess Bride
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- The main course was essence of brandied pig, and you need a lot of it to serve five hundred people.†
p. 85.9 *
- The proper wine for essence of brandied pig was in readiness behind the double door that led eventually to the wine cellar.†
p. 86.1
- Most of the candles lost their flames and toppled, which was only important because a few of them fell, still burning, into the small kerosene cups that were placed here and there across the banquet table so that the essence of brandied pig could be properly flaming when served.†
p. 87.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(essence) the defining or most important quality of something
or:
a extract that concentrates important qualities of something such as smell or taste - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)