gigot
Americannoun
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a leg-of-mutton sleeve.
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a leg of lamb or mutton.
noun
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a leg of lamb or mutton
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a leg-of-mutton sleeve
Etymology
Origin of gigot
1520–30; < Middle French, apparently diminutive of gigue fiddle (< Germanic; compare Old High German gîga kind of fiddle ( German Geige ), gig 3 ), so called in allusion to its shape
Example Sentences
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BOW, Skagit County — The French word gigot translates to a leg of lamb, a revelation that amused a live Bellingham radio audience at a February event featuring Washington poet and sheep farmer Jessica Gigot.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2023
In France, gigot d’agneau — leg of lamb — is, well, de rigueur for a proper Easter meal.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
I entered into a world of finding common ground and of sharing: the street’s history, the personal stories, advice about how to cook the perfect gigot d’agneau or how to rid an apartment of mice.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2015
She also cooks dinner at home around 6:30, relying on bourgeois fare like gigot with flageolets.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thildette Chalumeau told me: Pot au feu, veal cooked in a casserole in its own juice, rabbits stewed in wine, gigot rôti, pâtisserie—and many other things.
From The Halo by B. Martin Justice
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