cabob
Britishnoun
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Cabob, ka-bob′, n. an Oriental dish of pieces of meat roasted with herbs: roast meat generally in India.
From Project Gutenberg
Many Cairo restaurants refuse to serve cabob because they cannot sell it for a profit.
From Time Magazine Archive
To console ourselves for this disappointment we bowled away to a cabob shop, and having made a good luncheon, repaired to Mustapha's, to assist our digestion with a pipe, and make ready for the consul's dinner, to which we were invited.
From Project Gutenberg
Saturday, 11th.—Went to a cabob shop.
From Project Gutenberg
My Lord Castleroyal has done one - an honest one; my Lord Youngent another - an amusing one; my Lord Woolsey another - a pious one; there is the ‘Cutlet and the Cabob’ - a sentimental one; Timbuctoothen - a humorous one.”
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