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vindalho

vindalho is the obsolete form of vindaloo.

Meaning of vindaloo

Noun

vindaloo (countable and uncountable, plural vindaloos)

  1. A blend of chilis, tamarind, ginger, cumin, and mustard seeds, originally from Goa.
  2. A hot curry made with this spice.
    • Gerry ordered poppadoms and parathas and then he was interrupted by requests for vindaloos, chicken madrases and sag joshes, rice, raita and nan, from Priest, Morgan and Maria Grazia.2002, Desmond Barry, A Bloody Good Friday, page 157

Forms of vindalho

pluralvindalhos

Questions about vindalho

What is vindalho the obsolete form of?
Vindalho is the obsolete form of vindaloo.

Words near vindalho in the dictionary

  1. vinculine
  2. vinculins
  3. vinculum
  4. vinculums
  5. vinculun
  6. vindalho
  7. vindalhos
  8. vindaloo
  9. vindaloos
  10. vindalu
  11. vindeburnol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vindalho (page history and authors); vindaloo (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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