supreme
/ˌsuˈpɹim/ noun C2- The highest point.
- A pizza having a large number of the most common toppings, such as pepperoni, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, etc.
- A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
- Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.
Plural supremes
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During the winter of that year and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the French government upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes, dated from Narbonne and from Nimes, from which I gathered that his stay in France was likely to be a long one.
At their best I hold them supreme, though some prefer the Alexandrian school.
But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop.
“No matter,” replied De Boville, in supreme good-humor at the certainty of recovering his two hundred thousand francs,—“no matter, I can fancy it.” And he shouted with laughter.
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