sope
sope Lexical Profile
• noun
A traditional Mexican dish consisting of a thick, small circle of fried masa with pinched sides, typically topped with savory ingredients such as refried beans, meat, cheese, lettuce, and salsa.
"For dinner, we ordered a platter of carnitas sopes topped with fresh salsa and crumbled cotija cheese."
An archaic or obsolete spelling of soap.
"The old recipe for lye sope was found in an eighteenth-century frontier diary."
Word Nuance & Usage
In modern English, 'sope' almost exclusively refers to the Mexican culinary dish; its historical use as a variant spelling of 'soap' is completely obsolete.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Mexican Spanish 'sope', likely derived from 'sopa' (soup or sop), referring to the masa base absorbing the salsas and juices. The archaic English usage is a historical orthographic variant of 'soap'.