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tripe de roche
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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an edible lichen of the genus, Umbilicaria (or, less often, the genus Gyrophora), having circular, leathery, grayto-brownish thalli found attached to certain rocks by a threadlike holdfast.
See: rock-tripe
Quotations
1665
[The kittle was full wth the scrapings of the rocks, wch soon after it boyled became like starch, black and clammie & easily to be swallowed.]
1768
I found a very high rock, and this was covered with a lichen, which the Chipeways call waac, and the Canadians, tripe de roche.
1836
A small box of Tripe de Roche is forwarded to your address.
1936
That is good when you journey to meet them, but when you are behind--then comes the misery of empty bellies and "tripe de roche."
1963
[They are] preparing a camp and gathering tripe de roche, main food of the starving men on the return journey.