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🔥 A smoking frame 🥩 Smoked meat
boucan

boucan

9.9
Meat dried or smoked on a wooden frame to keep and add flavor
  • noun
  • /buˈkɑn/
  • Archaic
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  • The chef served delicious boucan with a side of vegetables.

Examples

  • The explorers packed boucan to sustain them during their long journey through the jungle.

  • Sailors relied on boucan because it could last for weeks without spoiling.

  • Traditional recipes often call for boucan as a key ingredient in Caribbean stews.

  • I love the taste of boucan during family gatherings.

  • The sailors cooked boucan over the fire to enjoy a flavorful meal during their voyage.

  • Caribbean chefs often use boucan to enhance the richness of their dishes.

  • To preserve their catch, fishermen prepared boucan on a traditional wooden frame by smoking the meat.

Surface Forms

boucan singular
boucans plural

Etymology

Boucan also came to mean the meat that was dried or smoked on that frame, because people simply named the food after the boucan it was made on. So boucan refers to meat that is 'preserved' and flavored by smoking.