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duck egg

[duhk-egg] / ˈdʌkˌɛgg /


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The dish was a study in circles: the meat pressed flat and dotted with pickled carrots, moons of sumac-dusted duck-egg aioli, microgreens, and blueberries.

From Salon • May 19, 2024

Located in the state’s Southern Tier close to the Pennsylvania border, it offers vistas of farmland, dotted with several big clapboard houses painted a duck-egg blue.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2022

The rest were duck-egg dummies, only there to fall over.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2020

Painted gleaming white and duck-egg blue, with touches of gilt and crisp navy accents, the room is rustic in a Martha Stewart way.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 13, 2013

He was a saturnine sort of man, with a hooked nose, a skin like parchment, and a perfectly bald sugar-loaf head, surmounted at the top by a wen as large as a duck-egg.

From The Hand in the Dark by Rees, Arthur J. (Arthur John)