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A réchauffé or cooked food done over again. In the professional slang of English cooks a resurrection dish is still called a dover (do over again).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.