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ratatouille
(rætətuːi)
uncountable noun
Ratatouille is a cooked dish made with vegetables such as tomatoes, onions, aubergines, courgettes, and peppers.
You should have prepared something other than lamb and ratatouille.
...a delicious ratatouille.
ratatouille in British English
(ˌrætəˈtwiː)
noun
a vegetable casserole made of tomatoes, aubergines, peppers, etc, fried in oil and stewed slowly
Word origin
C19: from French, from touiller to stir, from Latin tudiculāre, from tudes hammerratatouille in American English
(ˌrætəˈtwi; ˌrætəˈtui; ˌrɑtətwi; ˌrɑtəˈtui)
noun
a vegetable stew of eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, onions, and peppers, flavored with garlic and basil or other herbs and served hot or cold
Word origin
Fr < ra-, intensifier + ta-, redupl. syllable + touiller, to mix < L tudiculare, to stir about < tudicula, device for crushing olives, dim. of tudes, hammer < root of tundere, to strike: see studyImage ofratatouille
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