beef fondue
- noun
- /biːf fɒnˈduː/
:
fondue de carne
- Each guest cooked their choice of marinated meat in the bubbling pot of beef fondue during our festive dinner.
Examples
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We enjoyed a delicious beef fondue last night.
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The restaurant specializes in traditional Swiss dishes like beef fondue and raclette.
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At the party, guests gathered around the table to dip steak into the bubbling oil for beef fondue.
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They ordered beef fondue for two and enjoyed cooking the meat at their table.
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Have you ever tried beef fondue?
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At our family gathering, we enjoyed delicious beef fondue cooked right at the table with savory dipping sauces.
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The restaurant specializes in beef fondue, allowing diners to cook tender cubes of beef in hot oil and pair them with various sauces.
Synonyms
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Small pieces of meat or seafood that people cook in hot oil at the table and dip into sauces
A dish of beef cubes cooked in hot oil at the table and dipped in rich sauces
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — a fondue made with beef — is directly and transparently derived from combining 'beef' (meat from a cow) with 'fondue' (small pieces cooked in hot oil). This straightforward noun–noun composition follows common culinary naming patterns (cross-linguistically common), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would understand the MWE.
Etymology
Beef fondue gets its name from a Swiss table idea where people share a hot pot and dip food. The word fondue comes from French meaning 'melted', and cooks began using the same shared pot of hot oil to cook cubes of beef, so today beef fondue means 'beef cooked at the table in a shared pot'.