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bouillabaisse

noun
/ˈbuːjəˌbeɪs/UK/ˈbujəˌbeɪs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouillabaisse, from Occitan bolhabaissa, bouiabaisso, possibly a compound of bolhir (“to boil”) + abaissar (“to lower (the temperature)”).

  1. derived from bolhabaissa
  2. borrowed from bouillabaisse

Definitions

  1. A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France.

    • Further to the east he could see the jetty of the Yacht Club, where one may eat to surfeit of the best bouillabaisse in the world, in some of the best company.

  2. A mixture.

    • La Sirène du Mississipi is a synthesis of the work he [François Truffaut] has been doing during the preceding six or eight years, a great bouillabaisse of [Jean] Renoir, [Alfred] Hitchcock, [Humphrey] Bogart, [Antoine] Doinel, [...]

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