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bouillabaisse

bouil·la·baisse

UK/ˈbuːjəˌbeɪs/ US/-ˌbɛs/ rare

noun

1.

highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs

Origin

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

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