gombo

American  

[guhm-boh] / ˈgʌm boʊ /

noun

plural

gombos

1. gumbo.

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Example Sentences

There are only two popular soups which are peculiar to the creole cuisine,—calalou, a gombo soup, almost precisely similar to that of Louisiana; and the soupe-d'habitant, or "country soup."

From Two Years in the French West Indies by Hearn, Lafcadio

Such English-speaking residents of New Orleans seldom speak of it as "Creole": they call it gombo, for some mysterious reason which I have never been able to explain satisfactorily.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

What with the chain fastened on one leg, the woman's dress, and the gombo, he could not advance quickly.

From Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People by Blanc, Dr. Henri

The literature of "gombo" has perhaps even more varieties than there are preparations of the esculents above referred to;—the patois has certainly its gombo f�vi, its gombo fil�, its "gombo zh�bes"—both written and unwritten.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)

Her daughter, who has been to school, would pronounce it gombo zhairbes:—the modern patois is becoming more and more Frenchified, and will soon be altogether forgotten, not only throughout Louisiana, but even in the Antilles.

From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by Gould, George M. (George Milbrey)