ragout

American  

[ra-goo] / ræˈgu /

noun

1. French Cooking. a highly seasoned stew of meat or fish, with or without vegetables.

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verb (used with object)

ragouted, ragouting

1. to make into a ragout.

ragout British  

/ ræˈɡuː /

noun

1. a richly seasoned stew of meat or poultry and vegetables

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verb

1. (tr) to make into a ragout

Etymology

Origin of ragout

1650–60; < French ragoût, derivative of ragoûter to restore the appetite of, equivalent to r ( e ) - re- + á (< Latin ad to) + goût (< Latin gustus taste)

Example Sentences

All of which makes this second memoir as rich as a mushroom ragout.

From Los Angeles Times

The mandate to still provide all the necessary details of the watch — a ragout of numbers, abbreviations and surnames — requires some contortions.

From Washington Post

At Kulture, Davis gives a rotating group of young Black chefs a place to iterate on classic dishes like oxtail ragout, fried fish fillets and johnnycakes.

From Seattle Times

It’s a long way from the early McCartney family experiments with vegetarian entrees like stuffed vegetables and murky ragouts, Ms. McCartney said.

From New York Times

There was a warm tart of creamy crab ragout spiced with ’nduja in a brik shell, but it somehow didn’t work as well as the Basque txangurro that seemed to inspire it.

From New York Times