- a savoury dish consisting of melted cheese sometimes mixed with milk, seasonings, etc, on hot buttered toastAlso called: Welsh rarebit, rarebit
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Welsh′ rab′bit,
- Fooda dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- 1715–25; probably of jocular origin, originally; later Welsh rarebit by folk etymology, etymological
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Welsh rabbit n
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