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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pilau
noun
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▪ Sun bosses kept a pilau profile yesterday - and said nothing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
pilau

Pillau \Pil*lau"\, n. [Per. & Turk. pilau.] An Oriental dish consisting of rice boiled with mutton, fat, or butter. [Written also pilau.]

Wiktionary
pilau

Etymology 1 n. (alternative spelling of pilaf English) Etymology 2

a. (context Hawaii slang English) filthy

WordNet
pilau

n. rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes [syn: pilaf, pilaff, pilaw]

Usage examples of "pilau".

And he knew that Pilau was almighty anxious to get that brute of a half-track the hell out of the drive before his President returned.

It had to be coconut oil squeezed from edible copra, and before they left that roof Pilau had oiled everything on it that spun, or slid, or twisted, or looked to him as though it might someday want to.

Evidently Pilau had asked for help while-getting the coconut oil, since a half-dozen sturdy natives came trudging up the ramp, propelled by the bass rumblings of Merizo from below.

In a utility room off the kitchen, a sturdy old electrical plant shared floor space with deep-cycle batteries, and here at least Pilau seemed to know his way around.

A man belonging to bigbig canoe, said Pilau, had fixed the thing two wet seasons back.

He headed for the lobby where he dismissed Pilau with a handshake and took the stairs two at a time.

When Pilau seemed reluctant to touch the scooters, Keikano explained why.

While in the other shed with Pilau, Lovett heard still another do its Lazarus imitation two hours later.

Last of all came Myles with Pilau as his passenger, dragging his boots heavily to stop fifty feet beyond the council house.

It took Lovett a while to explain to Pilau that sometimes, a little friction can be a very good thing.

It was Pilau who took the hefty batteries from the coun cilhouse kitchen, trundling them back and forth one at a time in a wheelbarrow for each test.

Wade, I trust you can persuade your master mechanic, Pilau, to lend that half-track lorry of his for an hour.

They would ask Pilau and Keikano to help, citing the movement of heavy hardware to the sheds.

To Lovett it was transparently obvious that Pilau was working hard to keep from working.

When Pilau backed his brutish vehicle to the cart, Lovett saw an excited exchange between his friends and hurried to them, wondering what their elation was all about.