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Soup made with okra pods
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gumbo
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n. 1 (context countable English) The okra plant or its pods. 2 (context uncountable English) A soup or stew made with okra. 3 (context uncountable English) A fine silty soil that when wet becomes very thick and heavy.
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Gumbo is a stew that originated in southern Louisiana during the 18th century. It consists primarily of a strongly-flavored stock , meat or shellfish, a thickener, and the Cajun holy trinity of vegetables , namely celery , bell peppers , and onions . Gumbo ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Duck and andouille sausage gumbo was another dish that evolved out of the early Creole and Cajun kitchens of Louisiana. ▪ Making my first gumbo roux was a spiritual event. ▪ There was cheese soup and a brat, or clam chowder and ...
Usage examples of gumbo.
It is also used in a superb oyster and andouille gumbo poplular in Laplace, a Cajun town about 30 miles from New Orleans that calls itself the Andouille Capital of the World.
After all, in a world where some men could turn into bats and preferred the taste of blood to andouille gumbo, what was one more mystery?
Monica, chicken and andouille gumbo, and bread pudding in whiskey sauce.
There was always deer sausage on the stove, and a gumbo full of oysters, shrimp, crabmeat, chicken, Andouille sausage would brim green bubbling.
Boda the maverick cabber calling the people of Manchester from the Gumbo wave.
Sniffing the scents of spicy gumbo from another table, she eyed bowls of grillades in the hands of a passing waitress.
Cajun gumbo, crusty French bread, dandelion-vinegar salad, and some delicious concoction his aunt fancifully called Blueberry Huckle Buckle.
It was a mass of disintegrated tissue, a putrefied gumbo of flesh and fur that now was leaking out foul-smelling globules.
Technically Lent began at midnight, but there was no diminution of champagne, tafia, gumbo or pate, though having made his confession that afternoon January abstained all evening even when the opportunity presented itself.
This is the good Gumbo himself starting the new day, May the first, the day of fertility, with a wish that John Barleycorn keeps on rising.
Like so many works of man in Boca Grande the Jockey Club is less than it seems: an aluminum-sided bungalow with rattan card tables and a menu written in French but translated in the kitchen into ambiguous gumbos based mainly on plantains and rice.
He wants some gumbo and jambalaya, blackened catfish and crawfish etouffee, or maybe just a bowl of cool sweet cherries taken from the chiller.
Squire Gooch somewhat less than cordially invited me to join the family at supper, which featured a dish called gumbo.
She paused as Martha returned with two cold sodas and steaming bowls of gumbo with chunks of thick corn bread on the side.
That means beignets and crayfish bisque and jambalaya, it means shrimp remoulade, pecan pie, and red beans with rice, it means elegant pompano au papillote, funky file z'herbes, and raw oysters by the dozen, it means grillades for breakfast, a po' boy with chowchow at bedtime, and tubs of gumbo in between.