Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fish stew that is cooked in a wine sauce.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Fish served with a sauce of wine, onions, herbs, and other seasoning. The name is sometimes given to a dish of meat or other viands served with a similar sauce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.
- noun An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
stew made primarily withfish andwine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun highly seasoned soup or stew made of freshwater fishes (eel, carp, perch) with wine and stock
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I passed the turn where we used to halt when we were learning how to ride in front of the guns, past the little house where, on rare holidays, the boys could eat a matelote, which is fish boiled in wine, and so on to the place where the river is held by a weir and opens out into a kind of lake.
The Path to Rome Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Lanner, the refined souprette, with my bust alla brooche and the padbun under my matelote, showing my jigotty sleeves and all my new toulong touloosies.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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One of the restaurant's specialties, matelote of grouper with mushroom and artichoke ravioli, would be served.
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One of the restaurant's specialties, matelote of grouper with mushroom and artichoke ravioli, would be served.
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He was engaged for innumerable pleasure-parties, dinners à la matelote, evenings with Madame de Chastellux, when the Abbé
Calvert of Strathore Carter Goodloe
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A touch of garlic is indispensable to the true matelote, but when used it must be done with the greatest caution.
Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
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It is used to simmer fish in when directed to be à la matelote, and if it were already thickened the whole would burn.
Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
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I make bouillabaisse for those who like it, but -- between you and me -- Norman matelote of fish is just as good.
Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910
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At Port d'Arciat they picked up a friend, and after a “good little repast with a Good Friday matelote,” a few sketches were made at Thoissey and Beauregard.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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Almer drank red wine and ate with relish some sort of bird served with truffles, and ordered a matelote of eelpouts and a sterlet with its tail in its mouth.
The Schoolmaster Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
hernesheir commented on the word matelote
Traditionally, only freshwater fishes were used in the cooking of a matelote.
Matelote (sensu stricto) is sometimes misapplied to dishes made with veal or poultry.
January 4, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word matelote
"An old dance of sailors, in double time, and somewhat like a hornpipe."
- The second definition from the Webster's GNU 1913.
July 14, 2010