noun
caviar
salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre
In a sentence
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Serve the caviar on a chilled mother-of-pearl spoon, since metal leaves a faint tinny taste on the eggs.
Cooking
Overfishing pushed wild caviar off restaurant menus until farmed sturgeon made the delicacy affordable again.
Business
A cellar near the Caspian sells caviar by the tin, and tourists queue for tastings before the boats return.
Travel
Medieval Russian fishermen ate caviar as ordinary peasant food long before the tsars turned it into a luxury.
History
Demand for caviar drove the beluga sturgeon close to extinction, and the species is now listed as critically endangered.
Environment
Caviar behaves like a Veblen good: cutting its price makes buyers suspect the tin is inferior and demand falls.
Economics
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