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gumbo
1[ guhm-boh ]
Gumbo
2[ guhm-boh ]
noun
- a French patois spoken by Black and Creole people in Louisiana and the French West Indies.
Gumbo
1/ ˈɡʌmbəʊ /
noun
- sometimes not capital a French patois spoken by Creoles in Louisiana and the Caribbean
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Example Sentences
Lena Richard was a black caterer and owner of the Gumbo House who published New Orleans Cookbook in 1940.
The cafeteria style stop is basically a comfort food joint—think baby back ribs, shrimp and grits, and gumbo—done well.
So people stayed home and cooked big pots of red beans and gumbo.
It was all there: the military, the Constitution, the Bible—the whole Republican gumbo.
Spoon the rice into the center of the gumbo, and sprinkle each serving with green onions and parsley.
We cleared the gumbo cut west of the Beaver at a pretty good clip, in order to make the grade on the other side.
Chicken gumbo soup is one of the most popular dishes of this kind.
Probably its chief use is as an ingredient in soups, when it is known as gumbo.
The creoles have introduced a new variety of their own called gumbo.
I done made a mess er chicken gumbo fer dinner and some er them lil bits er thin biscuit.
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