pilaf
noun
a Middle Eastern dish consisting of sautéed, seasoned rice steamed in bouillon, sometimes with poultry, meat or shellfish.
pilaff,
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a variation of
pilaf.
Example Sentences
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But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was hot borsch, hot lobster pilaff, turkey and cheese sandwiches, orange sherbet, pastries and domestic champagne.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Turks mix nuts with their pilaff of rice and the Armenians add nuts to their baalghoor, a dish prepared from wheat which has been cooked and dried.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, report of the proceedings at the eighth annual meeting Stamford, Connecticut, September 5 and 6, 1917 by Northern Nut Growers Association
There is pilaff and kebabi and a bottle of champagne.
From Paul Patoff by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
This will furnish them with ekmek and pilaff, and that is all they expect.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen
