bouillabaisse

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouillabaisse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːjəbeɪs/

Noun

bouillabaisse (countable and uncountable, plural bouillabaisses)

1. A bouillabaisse, a type of French fish soup.
   • William Makepeace Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse

     And there'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.

2. (figuratively) A mixture.

   intellectual bouillabaisse

   the radical bouillabaisse that is American politics

Etymology

bouillir + à + baisse (literally, to boil at low [temperature]).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.ja.bɛs/

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Noun

bouillabaisse f (plural bouillabaisses)

1. a type of fish soup or stew which originates from Provence in France

Further reading

• “bouillabaisse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).