daube
Americannoun
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a stew of braised meat, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings.
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the pot or casserole in which such a stew is cooked.
noun
Etymology
Origin of daube
1715–25; < French (spelling by association with dauber to daub ) < Italian dobba < Catalan ( a la ) adoba stewed, derivative of adobar to spice, originally to prepare, arrange, ultimately < Germanic *dubban to strike; see dub 1
Example Sentences
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Many traditional stews are built without it: a Central American jocón, a West African mafe and a Provençal daube all skip browning and rely on other ingredients to deepen their flavors.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 13, 2024
His partner, Alex, cooks beef daube, the dish Mrs. Ramsay serves at an important moment in Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse.”
From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2022
Mr. Filippi and his students then cooked up beef daube, quail, tuna and lemon confit and other foods that accompanied French astronauts on subsequent missions to Mir in the 1990s.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2021
Buy the ingredients at the market in the morning and have the daube the same day for lunch or dinner.
From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2018
It corresponds to the French daube and is prepared in Italy in many different ways.
From The Italian Cook Book The Art of Eating Well by Gentile, Maria
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