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peelaw

peelaw is the obsolete form of pilaf.

Meaning of pilaf

Noun

pilaf (countable and uncountable, plural pilafs)

  1. A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
    • My spirits rose as I passed among the tents and savored the aroma of steaming pots of pilaf and the long skewers of shashlyk roasting over the open fires.1952, Cothburn O’Neal, chapter 1, in Master of the World (Avon; N158), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1967, →OCLC, book 1, page 17

Forms of peelaw

pluralpeelaws

Questions about peelaw

What is peelaw the obsolete form of?
Peelaw is the obsolete form of pilaf.

Words near peelaw in the dictionary

  1. peel tabs
  2. peel the onion
  3. peel-and-seal
  4. peelability
  5. peelable
  6. peelaw
  7. peelaws
  8. peele
  9. peeled
  10. peeled away
  11. peeled back the onion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: peelaw (page history and authors); pilaf (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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