Definition of BOUILLABAISSE

bouillabaisse

Meanings

Plural: bouillabaisses

Noun

  • highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs
  • A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France.
  • A mixture.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from French bouillabaisse, from Occitan bolhabaissa, bouiabaisso, possibly a compound of bolhir (“to boil”) + abaissar (“to lower (the temperature)”).

Synonyms

admixture, alloy, amalgam, blend, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail, combination, combo, composite, composition, compound, congeries, crazyquilt, disjecta membra, farrago, galimatias, gallimaufry, grab bag, hodgepodge, horse and rabbit stew, hotchpot, hotchpotch, job lot, jumble, macedoine, medley, melange, ming, mingle-mangle, miscellanea, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mixture, motley, muddle, oddments, odds and ends, olio, olla podrida, omnium-gatherum, pastiche, patchwork quilt, potpourri, ragbag, salmagundi, slurry, smorgasbord, welter, Whitman's sampler

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