feijoada

[fey-zhoo-ah-dah, fey-jwah-duh]

noun

Brazilian Cooking.

1. a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of feijoada¹

< Brazilian Portuguese, derivative of Portuguese feijão bean, earlier feijoes (plural) < Latin faseolus, diminutive of fasēlus a legume, perhaps the cowpea < Greek phásēlos; -ade ¹

Example Sentences

And that Wednesday had been pretty normal: He worked from home running his sales business while cooking a simmering pot of feijoada.

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“It’s important to show that there’s more to Brazilian food than feijoada and churrasco,” she said during a brief visit to New York last month.

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