bouillabaisse

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  1. noun A highly seasoned stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish.
  2. noun A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests.

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  • “The bouillabaisse is really good here,” he said Deborah disappeared for the rest of the week, which did very little for my self-esteem, because no matter how terrible it was for me to admit it, without her help I was stuck. —  DearlyDevotedDexter
  • Or what the juice of bouillabaisse is like or why it tastes the way it does? —  TEDBUNDY
  • Then, remembering it was his turn to do bouillabaisse, the Devil turned his back on the glorious sunset and went home By Scott Bradfield Copyright of Fantasy ; Science Fiction is the property of Spilogale, Inc. and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 04-05 - October-November 2000
  • “Did you like the bouillabaisse?… I had it made specially for you.” The bouillabaisse? —  Maigret on the Riviera—Georges Simenon—17
  • "But right at the start of my career I did a stint at a resort in the French Alps." One day the head chef asked me to put the fresh bouillabaisse (fish soup) outside in the freezing cold to chill it. —  The Daily Record - Home
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  1. French, from Provençal bouiabaisso : boui, imperative of bouie, to boil (from Latin bullīre, from bulla, bubble) + abaisso, imperative of abeissa, to lower (from Vulgar Latin *abbassiāre : Latin ad-, ad- + Medieval Latin bassus, low).

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  1. French, from Provencal bouille-abaisse, equivalent to F. bouillon abaissé: bouillon, broth, soup (see bouillon); abaissé, past participle of abaisser, reduce: see abase.
 

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