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cassoulet

cassoulet noun: a rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat.

cassoulet: a rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat
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Noun

cassoulet (countable and uncountable, plural cassoulets)

  1. A rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat.
    • He’d made cassoulet, rich with pork and duck and lamb, glistening with oil and so delicious and sinful that everyone in the room let out audible sighs after their first bites.2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 64

Forms of cassoulet

pluralcassoulets

Origin of cassoulet

Unadapted borrowing from French cassoulet, from Occitan caçolet.

Questions about cassoulet

What does cassoulet mean?
Cassoulet means a rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat.
What part of speech is cassoulet?
Cassoulet is a noun.
What is the plural of cassoulet?
The plural of cassoulet is cassoulets.

Words near cassoulet in the dictionary

  1. Cassop-cum-Quarrington
  2. Cassopolis
  3. Cassos
  4. cassotto
  5. cassottos
  6. cassoulet
  7. cassoulets
  8. cassowaries
  9. cassowary
  10. Cassowary Coast
  11. cassowary plum

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