RAGOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ragout mean? 

• RAGOUT (noun)
  The noun RAGOUT has 1 sense:

1. well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables

  Familiarity information: RAGOUT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAGOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("ragout" is a kind of...):

stew (food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ragout"):

salmi (ragout of game in a rich sauce)

 Context examples 

Miss Bingley was engrossed by Mr. Darcy, her sister scarcely less so; and as for Mr. Hurst, by whom Elizabeth sat, he was an indolent man, who lived only to eat, drink, and play at cards; who, when he found her to prefer a plain dish to a ragout, had nothing to say to her.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Nought, my sire, save that I have heard men say that there is a dish named an olla which is prepared there, though I have never been clear in my mind as to whether it was but a ragout such as is to be found in the south, or whether there is some seasoning such as fennel or garlic which is peculiar to Spain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And this is what I wished to have (laying his hand on my shoulder): this young girl, who stands so grave and quiet at the mouth of hell, looking collectedly at the gambols of a demon, I wanted her just as a change after that fierce ragout.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)