cockscomb

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After all, how many cookbooks have recipes for both cockscombs with truffles and beer soup?

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2016

In egg tempera and acrylic polymer, in still lifes of snails and cockscombs and sultry human dramas, 18 slightly surreal realists change perspective and weave soells always uneasy, often unearthly.

From Time Magazine Archive

A bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtains.

From "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros

In the French stores you will find preserved cockscombs, snails, marvelous blood sausages with nuts in them, rare cheeses, prepared meats in jellies, and hundreds of delicacies unknown to you.

From Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining. by Edwords, Clarence E. (Clarence Edgar)