gigot

Examples

• All

• For the holiday feast, they roasted a tender gigot of lamb with garlic and rosemary.

• We'll start with the melon, then gigot d'agneau boulangère.

  The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1964)

• "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

L

leg of lamb

vsgigot

6 1.0

A back leg of a young sheep cooked and served as a roast

is the specific leg cut often chosen for roasting

R

roast lamb

vsgigot

1 1.6

Meat from a young sheep that is cooked in an oven or over a fire until brown

is the specific leg cut used for roasting rather than the general dish

L

lamb roast

vsgigot

1 2.0

A large piece of lamb cooked whole in an oven

is a particular leg cut rather than any large joint

Surface Forms

Etymology