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Bouillon \Bou`illon"\, n. [F., fr. bouillir to boil.]
A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.
(Far.) An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from French bouillon (11c.), noun use of past participle of bouillir "to boil," from Old French bolir (see boil (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A clear seasoned broth made by simmering usually light meat, such as beef or chicken. 2 An excrescence on a horse's frush or frog.
WordNet
n. a clear seasoned broth
Wikipedia
Bouillon [] a is a municipality in Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Luxembourg Province. The municipality, which covers 149.09 km², had 5,477 inhabitants, giving a population density of 36.7 inhabitants per km².
Bouillon has a few schools, a lycée (middle school) and a gymnasium (high school), banks and a town square. Bouillon Castle still sits above the town centre, and is a popular tourist attraction.
Bouillon can refer to
- Bouillon, a town in Belgium
- Bouillon (broth), a simple broth
- Bouillon (soup), a Haitian soup
- Bouillon (restaurant), a traditional French restaurant that offers good quality food fast, at affordable prices
- Bouillon (grape), another name for the French wine grape Folle Blanche
- A Bouillon cube, used in cooking, especially in soups
- The Lords of Bouillon, who existed during the Middle Ages in Lower Lorraine
- Godfrey de Bouillon, a Lord of Bouillon and a leader of the First Crusade
- The Duchy of Bouillon, which existed between 1291 and 1806
- Francis Bouillon, a defenseman for the Montreal Canadiens hockey team
Bouillon, in French cuisine, is a broth or soup prepared from broth. This name comes from the verb bouillir, meaning to boil. It is usually made by the simmering of mirepoix and aromatic herbs (usually a bouquet garni) with either beef, veal, or poultry bones and/or with shrimp, or vegetables in boiling water.
Traditionally, the word bouillon was used to describe a soup based on beef broth, and court-bouillon if based on fish broth. Clear beef bouillon is called consommé.
This is not to be confused with bouillon soup, a Haitian soup, or stock, which is made in a (somewhat) similar manner, but serves an entirely different purpose in French cuisine.
In France, a bouillon is a traditional (late 19th or early 20th century), spacious restaurant that usually serves traditional French cuisine, in particular a Bouillon (broth) which has provided the name for this class of restaurants.
When invented, the concept was to serve good quality food fast and at affordable prices. And in more than a century, not much has changed.
Today, the buildings of some bouillons are listed historical monuments.
Usage examples of "bouillon".
In an emergency, aspic may be made from the prepared extracts of beef, or from bouillon capsules.
Once Rollo, William of Normandy, the Hohenstaufen, Coeur de Lion, de Bouillon, the Teutonic Knights, Rainald van Dassel, Gustav Adolf, Wallenstein, Alba, Cromwell, Richelieu, Turenne, de Saxe, Frederick the Great, Pitt, Napoleon, Bismarck, trod this soil.
Bouillon and Desbois, two French physicians of the last century, both record examples of the uterus rupturing in the last stages of pregnancy and the mother recovering.
Die Bouillon sei nur Schein, man bereite sie aus ranzigem Speck, Talg und fauligem Wasser.
Its value amounts to two millions of sequins, enclosed in a casket, the same which was taken by Godfrey de Bouillon from Mathilda, Countess of Tuscany, in the year 1081, when he endeavoured to assist Henry IV, against that princess.
It is expressly declared in the Assise of Jerusalem, that after instituting, for his knights and barons, the court of peers, in which he presided himself, Godfrey of Bouillon established a second tribunal, in which his person was represented by his viscount.
We need eggs, butter, peanut oil, vermouth, beef bouillon, and barbecue sauce.
The highest names in France - the Princesse de Tingry, the Duchesse de Vitry, the Duchesse de Lusignan, the Duchesse de Bouillon, the Comtesse de Soissons, the Duc de Luxembourg, the Marguis de Cessac - scores of the older aristocracy, were involved, whilst literally hundreds of venal apothecaries, druggists, pseudo-alchemists, astrologers, quacks, warlocks, magicians, charlatans, who revolved round the ominous and terrible figure of Catherine La Voisin, professional seeress, fortune-teller, herbalist, beauty-specialist, were caught in the meshes of law.
The Duke of Bouillon was so jealous of his rights that he preferred the exercise of his prerogatives to all the honours he might have enjoyed at the Court of France.
Bouillon road by the Prussian Guard, the Carignan road by the Bavarians, the Mezieres road by the Wurtemburgers.
Its value amounts to two millions of sequins, enclosed in a casket, the same which was taken by Godfrey de Bouillon from Mathilda, Countess of Tuscany, in the year 1081, when he endeavoured to assist Henry IV, against that princess.
The next day we met each other as had been arranged, and went to see Madame d'Urfe, who lived on the Quai des Theatins, on the same side as the "Hotel Bouillon.
Everywhere were swords, pistols, cuirasses, and arquebuses, and it was plain that as soon as his gout was better Monsieur de Bouillon would give a pretty tangle to the enemies of the parliament to unravel.
While Saint-Loup had sold his priceless 'Genealogical Tree,' old portraits of the Bouillons, letters of Louis XIII, in order to buy Carrieres and furniture in the modern style, M.
He selected a jar of English beef tea, a sealed package of bouillon cubes, a jar of Swiss chocolates and a sealed tin of hardcandies, a canned Italian cheese, and a few other small items.