couscous
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- noun
- /ˈkuːskuːs/
- Fluff couscous with a fork, then fold into the dressed vegetables.
- stir couscous
- a cup of couscous
- cook couscous
Examples
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Whole wheat couscous is another super-fast grain, as it just needs a few minutes of steaming.
Blog text (29) -
You like couscous?
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Or are they having couscous for lunch?
Fiction book (1991) -
Do you need a hand with that couscous?
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Tagine, with couscous and haloumi, and I've got to say no one would have missed the beef!
Blog text (9) -
That is mixed with couscous, bulgur wheat, oatmeal, cooked rice, and spices.
Blog text (8) -
On the platter is a poached salmon with a mound of couscous on one side and sliced tomatoes with chopped olives on the other.
Fiction book (1999) -
We'll have couscous, tortilla chips, dancing, and, for the main course—what else?—a barbecued sheep.
Fiction book (1995) -
The government announced that prices of wheat flour, sugar, and semolina, a wheat product used to make couscous, were to rise by 40 percent; cooking oil prices, by 27.5 percent; milk prices, by 14.3 percent; and butter prices, by 76.2 percent (J. Nelson 1985).
Academic text (1992) -
I open a box of couscous and put a pot of water to boil.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word couscous comes from North African languages like Berber and Arabic, with words such as kuskus for 'small round bits of wheat' used in the food. Because the name originally described those tiny granules, couscous today often means the pasta-like grains themselves.