bouillabaisse
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈbuːjəˌbeɪs/, /-ˌbɛs/, /ˌbuːjəˈbeɪs/
  • (GA) IPA: /ˈbujəˌbeɪs/, /ˌbujəˈbeɪs/
Noun

bouillabaisse

  1. A type#Noun|type of fish#Noun|fish soup or stew#Noun|stew from Provence, France.
    • 1894, George du Maurier, “Part Fifth: Little Billee: An Interlude”, in Trilby: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, OCLC 174215199 ↗, page 243 ↗:
      First of all they dined together at a delightful little Franco-Italian pothouse near Leicester Square, where they had bouillabaisse (imagine the Laird's delight), and spaghetti, and a poulet rôti, which is such a different affair from a roast fowl!
  2. (figuratively) A mixture.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:hodgepodge, Thesaurus:mixture
    intellectual bouillabaisse
    the radical bouillabaisse that is American politics
Translations
  • French: bouillabaisse
  • German: Bouillabaisse
  • Italian: bouillabaisse
  • Portuguese: bouillabaisse
  • Russian: буйабе́с
  • Spanish: bullabesa



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