/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Soul of a Goose or Capon
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The liver, called by the French ame. The renowned Strasbourg “patés de foie gras” are made of these souls.
“Draw out all the entrails … but leave the soul.”—Brigg: English Dictionary of Cookery.
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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.