bouillabaisse

Definitions

1. A type of fish soup or stew from Provence, France.
   countable, uncountable
2. A mixture.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

9 more languages

Catalàbullabessa

Ελληνικάμπουγιαμπέσα

Suomibouillabaisseranskalainen kalakeitto

Italianobouillabaisse

日本語ブイヤベース

한국어부야베스

Polskibouillabaisse

Portuguêsbouillabaisse

Русскийбуйабе́с

Examples

“And here's an inn, not rich and splendid, / But still in comfortable case; / The which in youth I oft attended, / To eat⟳ a bowl of Bouillabaisse. // This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is— / A sort⟳ of soup, or broth, or brew, / Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, / That Greenwich never could outdo; / Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffern, / Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace; / All these you eat⟳ at Terré's tavern, / In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.”

“First of all they dined together at a delightful little Franco-Italian pothouse near Leicester Square, where they had bouillabaisse (imagine⟳ the Laird's delight), and spaghetti, and a poulet rôti, which is such a different affair from a roast fowl!”

“Further to the east he could see⟳ the jetty of the Yacht Club, where one may eat⟳ to surfeit of the best bouillabaisse in the world, in some of the best company.”

“A remarkable bouillabaisse is served up in the little restaurant where I take⟳ my meals, that is, lunch, for in the evening I eat⟳ only fruit, figs and grapes mostly, in my room.”

“On the very bridge of the boat, exhilarated, he [Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec] concocted elaborate bouillabaisses, refining his recipes with priestly gravity.”

“If you want⟳ to start⟳ an argument among Frenchmen, just ask⟳ a group of them what goes into an authentic bouillabaisse—that lusty Mediterranean seafood stew fragrant with the aroma of fish⟳, shellfish and saffron. The dish was first brought to Marseilles by sailors, and legend has it that the Greek goddess Venus cooked bouillabaisse for her husband Vulcan to put⟳ him to sleep⟳ so that she could go about other business.”

“Catfish and redfish, turtles and shellfish (e.g. deep-fried clams) were often eaten in fricassees or bouillabaisses and in late summer, oysters and crawfish (described by one observer as "des ecrevices^([sic – meaning écrevisses]) magnifiques") were consumed with enthusiasm [...].”

“I expected the open-air markets, but defrosted bouillabaisse and canned ratatouille weren’t what I imagined to be staples of Parisian culinary life. Yet they’ve become⟳ mainstays.”

“La Sirène du Mississipi is a synthesis of the work⟳ he [François Truffaut] has been doing during the preceding six or eight years, a great bouillabaisse of [Jean] Renoir, [Alfred] Hitchcock, [Humphrey] Bogart, [Antoine] Doinel, [...]”

“Social psychologists differentiated between "merely desegregated" and "genuinely integrated" schools [...]. The former refers to a mere racial bouillabaisse and implies nothing about the quality of racial interaction that is a precondition to effective learning.”

“By the mid-twentieth century the avant-garde, the good, the bad, and the fatal in-between [in art] have⟳ all become⟳ mixed in one indigestible bouillabaisse, and [Dwight] Macdonald has assigned himself the position of pointing out which is which.”

“The word "megadiversity" has been coined to describe⟳ such wildlife bouillabaisses, where many conservationists believe⟳ they should focus⟳ their efforts.”

“It's who I am that matters. God, you can see⟳ the Indian in me. There are 200 kinds of Indians in Nicaragua—actually, I [Barbara Carrera] call⟳ myself a bouillabaisse of bloodlines.”

“Both Dunn cases came to the Court on the “shadow docket,” a bouillabaisse of emergency motions and other matters that do not receive⟳ full briefing and oral argument before the justices decide⟳ a case.”

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