What does mock-turtle mean?

mock-turtle

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

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"This is a rich handsome dish, and an elegant variety of mock-turtle."
"O, this is he that disembodied matter, And prov’d that incorporeal corporations Put nothing in no platter, And for mock-turtle only supp’d sensations."
"Soup, sir? yes, sir; very nice mock-turtle sir—real mock-turtle, sir."

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