cassoulet

English

Cassoulet at a restaurant in Avignon, France

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French cassoulet, from Occitan caçolet.

Noun

cassoulet (countable and uncountable, plural cassoulets)

1. A rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat.
   • 2020, Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom, Viking (2021), page 64:

     He’d made cassoulet, rich with pork and duck and lamb, glistening with oil and so delicious and sinful that everyone in the room let out audible sighs after their first bites.

Related terms

• cassole
• cassolette

Translations

a rich stew originating in southwest France containing beans and meat

Catalan: cassolet m, cassoleta (ca) f, mongetada f Occitan: caçolet (oc) m

Anagrams

• Lost Cause, lost cause, osculates, scaleouts, scales out

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan caçolet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.su.lɛ/

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Noun

cassoulet m (plural cassoulets)

1. cassoulet

Descendants

• Mauritian Creole: kasoule

Further reading

• “cassoulet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Anagrams

• cloutasse