the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A dish of meat (usually mutton or veal) and vegetables cut small, stewed brown, and highly seasoned.
n. Figuratively, a spicy mixture; any piquant combination of persons or things.
To make a ragout of; to make a spicy mixture of; hence figuratively, to give spiciness or piquancy to, as speech or literary style.
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n. well-seasoned stew of meat and vegetables
Word Usage
"When, therefore, you brought me the cumin ragout my colour changed and I said to myself, “It was this very dish that caused the cutting off of my thumbs and great toes;” and, when you forced me, I said, “Needs must I fulfil the oath I have sworn.”"