couscous
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- noun
- /ˈkuːsˌkuːs/
- At the North African restaurant, I tried the lamb with couscous for the first time.
- couscous with lamb
- couscous salad
- stew with couscous
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Watch on YouTubeChimichurri barramundi with lemon carrots and garlic couscous.
- Chimichurri barramundi with lemon carrots and garlic couscous.
- Just eating some dinner, got some halloumi and couscous and veggies, and we're about to start watching.
- Julie has yet to run a flood of mint tea and couscous over her tongue.
- I want to know, you take like a ton of veganes, a ton of sriracha, and you just make this sludge like this couscous sludge that's like spicy.
- If you steam some spinach and you throw it all in and you just make this sludge like this couscous sludge that's like spicy and got veganes.
Examples
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The main course was the most succulent and aromatic tagine of lamb with aubergine and an almond couscous.
Blog text (19) -
If you invite me for supper, I will invite you back for couscous.
Academic text (2008) -
I ordered the chicken couscous, which I got the first night we were here, but this looks a little better.
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It's an authentic North African couscous.
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I love couscous, and it's a much better choice than some rice or noodle-type dishes.
Blog text (32) -
I'm doing lamb couscous, and you're welcome to join us.
Fiction book (1995) -
They ate the steaming couscous with a hearty appetite, especially the little boy, but Mimouna had not been able to swallow a bite.
Fiction book (1998) -
On the other hand, every Sunday, Hamadi, his son Samad, and his daughter Houria, the houri, sit down together to a couscous he lovingly prepares himself.
Fiction book (2001) -
This is a heaping serving of couscous with zucchini, eggplant, carrots, onions, and chickpeas, topped with a vibrant tomato sauce.
Blog text (34) -
For dinner, we enjoyed couscous topped with a savory vegetable stew.
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. That's why couscous can also mean the whole steamed dish often served with meat and vegetables.