gigot
- noun
- /ˈɡiːɡoʊ/
- UK
- The chef prepared a delicious gigot for the family dinner, seasoned with herbs.
Examples
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For the holiday feast, they roasted a tender gigot of lamb with garlic and rosemary.
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We'll start with the melon, then gigot d'agneau boulangère.
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"His staff of more than 140 carpet-bombs executive departments with 'Dingellgrams,' letters often of 20 pages or more with hundreds of questions," wrote Paul Gigot of the Wall Street Journal.
Academic text (1990) -
To the complex blue body of her dress, you would have us add wide-blown gigot sleeves swelling from bare shoulders and a matching belt cinched at her narrow waist, creating the inverted-triangle look so popular among fashionable women today.
Fiction book (2001) -
She carefully carved the gigot at the table, serving juicy portions to her guests.
Synonyms
A back leg of a young sheep cooked and served as a roast
Meat from a young sheep that is cooked in an oven or over a fire until brown
A large piece of lamb cooked whole in an oven
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gigot comes from French, where it originally meant a 'leg' of an animal. So gigot today means the leg of lamb you roast, and you can remember it by picturing the lamb's leg on your plate.