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stew

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"Slow-cooked dish"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /stʃʉː/Part of speech verb, nounSorted estwStarts with SEnds with W1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cook slowly and for a long time in liquid

Word origin

From Middle English stewe, stue, from Anglo-Norman estouve, Old French estuve (“bath, bathhouse”) (modern French étuve), from Medieval Latin stupha, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *extufāre, from ex- + Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam”), from τύφω (túphō, “to smoke”). See also Italian stufare, Portuguese estufar. Compare also Old English stuf-bæþ (“a hot-air bath, vapour bath”); see stove.

Used in a sentence

  • And rak'd, for converts, even the court and stews.
  • Because he was chaste, the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews.
  • Although whores were permitted to sit at the door of the stew, they could not solicit in any way nor ‘chide or throw stones’ at passers-by.

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