Definition of "bisque"

bisque¹

/bɪsk/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural bisques
1. A thick creamy soup made from fish, shellfish, meat or vegetables.
2. A pale pinkish brown colour.
3. (ceramics) A form of unglazed earthenware; biscuit.
adjective
not comparable
1. Of a pale pinkish brown colour.
verb
third-person singular simple present bisques, present participle bisquing, simple past and past participle bisqued
1. (transitive) To prepare ceramics in the bisque style.
  Quotations
  I use an electric kiln strictly for bisquing my pots.
  2018, Melissa Weiss, Handbuilt, A Potter's Guide, page 147

bisque²

/bɪsk/

noun
plural bisques
1. (sports) An extra turn, free point or some other advantage allowed.
  Quotations
  Going round with Angus McTavish carrying your bag, she mused, was equivalent to about four bisques to the opposition. Angus McTavish was the sort of man who, just by going about looking like a frozen asset, takes all the edge and zip out of a girl's game.
  1937 March 19, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 851336728; republished Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 2002, ISBN 978-1-58567-277-6 , pages 137–138
  1. A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
  2. A free point in a handicap real tennis match.
2. (chiefly British) Exemption from work or other duty on a particular day.
  1. (chiefly BBC, historical) A day's leave an employee may take without warning or reason and not be counted as annual leave.
  2. (British parliament) Permission for an MP to be absent from a vote, granted by the whips when the absence is not likely to affect the outcome.