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bouillis

bouillis is the plural of bouilli.

Meaning of bouilli

Noun

bouilli (countable and uncountable, plural bouillis)

  1. Meat stewed with juice.
    • Proofs of the presence of the white man are found all over the Territory in the shape of old bouilli tins, &c., and often when out after a strayed horse, I have imagined myself to be in wilds untrodden except by the foot of the blackfellow, but the sight of an unassuming empty sardine tin would...1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 342

Questions about bouillis

What is bouillis the plural of?
Bouillis is the plural of bouilli.

Words near bouillis in the dictionary

  1. bouillabaisses
  2. bouilli
  3. bouillie
  4. bouillion
  5. bouillions
  6. bouillis
  7. bouillon
  8. bouillon cube
  9. bouillon cubes
  10. bouillons
  11. bouillotte

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