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Definition of Pilaw
1. Noun. Rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes.
Definition of Pilaw
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pilaf) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pilaw
1. pilaf [n -S] - See also: pilaf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilaw
Literary usage of Pilaw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"Those being delivered, they all retired to the place appointed, and there stuffed
their bellies with pilaw and precious cold water. ..."
2. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"[Turk, pilaw.] A Turkish dish of boiled rice and mutton fat. Pillory. [Fr.
pilori, perhaps from pilier, a pillar.] Л wooden instrument which exhibited the ..."
3. Letters from the Caucasus and Georgia: To which are Added, the Account of a by Wilhelm von Freygang (1823)
"... then appeared at least six different kinds of pilaw, the favourite dish of
Asiatics, and the only one in my opinion which is eatable. ..."
4. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-table Directory: In which Will by Charlotte Campbell Bury (1844)
"pilaw, an Indian dish. Take six or eight ribs of a neck of mutton ; separate and
take off all the skin and fat, and put them into a stewpan with twelve ..."
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