feijoada

[ Portuguese fey-zhoo-ah-dah; English fey-jwah-duh ]

nounBrazilian Cooking.
  1. a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.

Origin of feijoada

1
<Brazilian Portuguese, derivative of Portuguese feijão bean, earlier feijoes (plural) <Latin faseolus, diminutive of fasēlus a legume, perhaps the cowpea <Greek phásēlos;see -ade1

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