panada

[ puh-nah-duh, -ney- ]

noun

a thick sauce or paste made with breadcrumbs, milk, and seasonings, often served with roast wild fowl or meat.

Origin of panada

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Spanish, equivalent to pan- “bread” (from Latin pānis ) + -ada noun suffix; see -ade¹ (def. 1)

Words Nearby panada

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How to use panada in a sentence

Cut up three or four mushrooms, and mix in with the grouse panada, and fill the mould.
Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis
Mix its weight with the same quantity of pounded potatoes or panada and six ounces of fresh butter.
Dressed Game and Poultry la Mode | Harriet A. de Salis
The panada, the noisiest of noisy restaurants, was one of his haunts, and there was another opposite the old post-office.
The Life of James McNeill Whistler | Elizabeth Robins Pennell
panada, pa-n′da, n. a dish made by boiling bread to a pulp in water, with sweetening and flavour: a batter for forcemeats.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) | Various
But this was at the end of our stay in Venice, and months of dining at the panada had passed before then.
Nights | Elizabeth Robins Pennell

British Dictionary definitions for panada

panada

/ (pəˈnɑːdə) /

noun

a mixture of flour, water, etc, or of breadcrumbs soaked in milk, used as a thickening

Origin of panada

C16: from Spanish, from pan bread, from Latin pānis

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