"bouillabaisse" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈbuːjəˌbeɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /-ˌbɛs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌbuːjəˈbeɪs/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈbujəˌbeɪs/ [General-American], /ˌbujəˈbeɪs/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-bouillabaisse.wav , LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-bouillabaisse.wav Forms: bouillabaisses [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪs, -eɪz Etymology: Borrowed from French bouillabaisse, from Occitan bolhabaissa, bouiabaisso, possibly a compound of bolhir (“to boil”) + abaissar (“to lower (the temperature)”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|bouillabaisse}} French bouillabaisse, {{der|en|oc|bolhabaissa}} Occitan bolhabaissa, {{glossary|compound}} compound, {{affix|oc|bolhir|abaissar|nocat=1|t1=to boil|t2=to lower (the temperature)}} bolhir (“to boil”) + abaissar (“to lower (the temperature)”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} bouillabaisse (countable and uncountable, plural bouillabaisses)
  1. A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Soups Translations (type of fish stew or soup from Provence): bullabessa [feminine] (Catalan), 馬賽魚湯 (Chinese Cantonese), 马赛鱼汤 (maa⁵ coi³ jyu⁴ tong¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 馬賽魚湯 (Chinese Mandarin), 马赛鱼汤 (Mǎsài yútāng) (Chinese Mandarin), bujabéza [feminine] (Czech), bouillabaisse (Finnish), ranskalainen kalakeitto (Finnish), bouillabaisse [feminine] (French), Bouillabaisse [feminine] (German), μπουγιαμπέσα (bougiampésa) [feminine] (Greek), בּוּיָאבֶּז (buyabéz) [masculine] (Hebrew), bouillabaisse [feminine] (Italian), ブイヤベース (buiyabēsu) (Japanese), 부야베스 (buyabeseu) (Korean), bolhabaissa [feminine] (Occitan), bouillabaisse [feminine, masculine] (Polish), bouillabaisse [feminine] (Portuguese), буйабе́с (bujabés) [masculine] (Russian), bullabesa [feminine] (Spanish), bouillabaisse [common-gender] (Swedish)
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  2. (figuratively) A mixture. Tags: countable, figuratively, uncountable Synonyms: hodgepodge, mixture
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          "text": "And here's an inn, not rich and splendid, / But still in comfortable case; / The which in youth I oft attended, / To eat a bowl of Bouillabaisse. // This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is— / A sort of soup, or broth, or brew, / Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, / That Greenwich never could outdo; / Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffern, / Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; / All these you eat at Terré's tavern, / In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.",
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          "text": "First of all they dined together at a delightful little Franco-Italian pothouse near Leicester Square, where they had bouillabaisse (imagine the Laird's delight), and spaghetti, and a poulet rôti, which is such a different affair from a roast fowl!",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "A remarkable bouillabaisse is served up in the little restaurant where I take my meals, that is, lunch, for in the evening I eat only fruit, figs and grapes mostly, in my room.",
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          "text": "On the very bridge of the boat, exhilarated, he [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] concocted elaborate bouillabaisses, refining his recipes with priestly gravity.",
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          "ref": "1985 December, John Mariani, “Entertaining on Board: Bouillabaisse—a Fine Kettle of Fish”, in Peter A. Janssen, editor, Motor Boating & Sailing, volume 156, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:",
          "text": "If you want to start an argument among Frenchmen, just ask a group of them what goes into an authentic bouillabaisse—that lusty Mediterranean seafood stew fragrant with the aroma of fish, shellfish and saffron. The dish was first brought to Marseilles by sailors, and legend has it that the Greek goddess Venus cooked bouillabaisse for her husband Vulcan to put him to sleep so that she could go about other business.",
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          "ref": "2013 April, Mary C[arolyn] Beaudry, “Mixing Food, Mixing Cultures: Archaeological Perspectives”, in W. Paul van Pelt, editor, Archaeological Review from Cambridge, volume 28, numbers 1 (Archaeology and Cultural Mixture), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Division of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 294:",
          "text": "Catfish and redfish, turtles and shellfish (e.g. deep-fried clams) were often eaten in fricassees or bouillabaisses and in late summer, oysters and crawfish (described by one observer as \"des ecrevices^([sic – meaning écrevisses]) magnifiques\") were consumed with enthusiasm [...].",
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          "text": "Social psychologists differentiated between \"merely desegregated\" and \"genuinely integrated\" schools [...]. The former refers to a mere racial bouillabaisse and implies nothing about the quality of racial interaction that is a precondition to effective learning.",
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          "text": "It's who I am that matters. God, you can see the Indian in me. There are 200 kinds of Indians in Nicaragua—actually, I [Barbara Carrera] call myself a bouillabaisse of bloodlines.",
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          "text": "And here's an inn, not rich and splendid, / But still in comfortable case; / The which in youth I oft attended, / To eat a bowl of Bouillabaisse. // This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is— / A sort of soup, or broth, or brew, / Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, / That Greenwich never could outdo; / Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffern, / Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; / All these you eat at Terré's tavern, / In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.",
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "A remarkable bouillabaisse is served up in the little restaurant where I take my meals, that is, lunch, for in the evening I eat only fruit, figs and grapes mostly, in my room.",
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          "ref": "1982, Mary Tapié de Céleyran, edited by Georges Beauté, A Toulouse-Lautrec Album, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Gibbs M. Smith, →ISBN, page 62, column 1:",
          "text": "On the very bridge of the boat, exhilarated, he [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] concocted elaborate bouillabaisses, refining his recipes with priestly gravity.",
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          "ref": "1985 December, John Mariani, “Entertaining on Board: Bouillabaisse—a Fine Kettle of Fish”, in Peter A. Janssen, editor, Motor Boating & Sailing, volume 156, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 28, column 1:",
          "text": "If you want to start an argument among Frenchmen, just ask a group of them what goes into an authentic bouillabaisse—that lusty Mediterranean seafood stew fragrant with the aroma of fish, shellfish and saffron. The dish was first brought to Marseilles by sailors, and legend has it that the Greek goddess Venus cooked bouillabaisse for her husband Vulcan to put him to sleep so that she could go about other business.",
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          "text": "Catfish and redfish, turtles and shellfish (e.g. deep-fried clams) were often eaten in fricassees or bouillabaisses and in late summer, oysters and crawfish (described by one observer as \"des ecrevices^([sic – meaning écrevisses]) magnifiques\") were consumed with enthusiasm [...].",
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          "text": "Social psychologists differentiated between \"merely desegregated\" and \"genuinely integrated\" schools [...]. The former refers to a mere racial bouillabaisse and implies nothing about the quality of racial interaction that is a precondition to effective learning.",
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          "text": "The word \"megadiversity\" has been coined to describe such wildlife bouillabaisses, where many conservationists believe they should focus their efforts.",
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          "text": "It's who I am that matters. God, you can see the Indian in me. There are 200 kinds of Indians in Nicaragua—actually, I [Barbara Carrera] call myself a bouillabaisse of bloodlines.",
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          "ref": "2021, Ian Millhiser, The Supreme Court just backed away from one of its cruelest death penalty decisions, vox.com, February 12 2021",
          "text": "Both Dunn cases came to the Court on the “shadow docket,” a bouillabaisse of emergency motions and other matters that do not receive full briefing and oral argument before the justices decide a case."
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      "word": "bullabessa"
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      "word": "马赛鱼汤"
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      "word": "ranskalainen kalakeitto"
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      "sense": "type of fish stew or soup from Provence",
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      "word": "bouillabaisse"
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      "sense": "type of fish stew or soup from Provence"
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