feijoada
[ Portuguese fey-zhoo-ah-dah; English fey-jwah-duh ]
nounBrazilian Cooking.
a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.
Origin of feijoada
1<Brazilian Portuguese, derivative of Portuguese feijão bean, earlier feijoes (plural) <Latin faseolus, diminutive of fasēlus a legume, perhaps the cowpea <Greek phásēlos;see -ade1
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