jambalaya
/ˌdʒambəˈlʌɪə
/noun [mass noun]
A Cajun dish of rice with shrimps, chicken, and vegetables: huge concoctions of gumbo and jambalaya [count noun]: Creole jambalayas are among my favourites...
- Last year I was in New Orleans and had plenty of gumbo, jambalaya, and crawfish étouffée.
- Now, instead of serving pita pockets or turkey sandwiches at lunch, the students are treated to roast beef with caramelized onions on a baguette or shrimp jambalaya with jalapeño cornbread.
- In a traditional jambalaya, chicken, sausage, ham, and chopped vegetables are cooked and added with seasonings and liquid to an iron pot full of rice.
Origin
Louisiana French, from Provençal jambalaia.
Rhymes
- no-nonsense
- non-operating
- non-operational
- non-ordained
- non-organic
- non-orgasmic
- non-orientability
- non-orientable
- non-original
- nonose
- no nothing
- non-owner
- non-ownership
- nonoxinol
- nonoxynol
- non-paid
- non-papist
- non-parallel
- non-parametric
- nonpareil
- non-participant
- non-participating
- non-participation
- non-partisan
- non-partisanship