boeuf bourguignon

American  

[bœf boor-gee-nyawn] / bœf bur giˈnjɔ̃ /

noun

French Cooking.

1. beef cubes cooked in red wine with mushrooms, onions, and bacon.

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boeuf bourguignon British  

/ bœf burɡiɲɔ̃ /

noun

1. Also called: boeuf à la bourguignonne.  a casserole of beef, vegetables, herbs, etc, cooked in red wine

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Etymology

Origin of boeuf bourguignon

< French: literally, Burgundian beef; see bourguignon

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boeuf bourguignon

That Guillermo del Toro had never before addressed “Frankenstein” is a bit like Yo-Yo Ma overlooking the Bach cello suites, or Julia Child having blanked on boeuf bourguignon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025

Bill makes a root vegetable orange soup with duck hash, a deconstructed boeuf bourguignon and orange cream puffs with orange chantilly cream.

From Salon ● Apr. 20, 2022

While Julia Child was busy teaching her loyal public television viewers how to make boeuf bourguignon, her husband could be found crawling at her feet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 24, 2021

We’d had a good lunch of boeuf bourguignon at Les Passantes, a newly opened restaurant in Saint Sauveur, the day before, but I wanted to try Colette’s favorite tables still in business today.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2019

Mostly, I fed my own cravings—ordering those fig bars from Amazon in bulk, cooking boeuf bourguignon at 38 weeks.

From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2018