bouillabaisse

Borrowed from French bouillabaisse, from Occitan bolhabaissa, possibly a compound of bolhir (“to boil”) +‎ abaissar (“to lower [temperature]”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːjəbeɪs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbujəbeɪs/, /ˌbujəˈbeɪs/
• Rhymes: -eɪs

bouillabaisse (countable and uncountable, plural bouillabaisses)

1. A type of fish soup or stew from Provence.
   • (Can we date this quote?), William Makepeace Thackeray, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse:

     And there's an inn, not rich and splendid,
     But still in comfortable case—
     The which in youth I oft attended,
     To eat a bowl of Bouillabaisse.

2. (figuratively) A mixture.

   intellectual bouillabaisse

   the radical bouillabaisse that is American politics

From Occitan bolhabaissa, possibly a compound of bolhir (“to boil”) +‎ abaissar (“to lower [temperature]”), equivalent to bouillir +‎ abaisser.

• IPA^(key): /bu.ja.bɛs/

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• Rhymes: -ɛs

bouillabaisse f (countable and uncountable, plural bouillabaisses)

1. bouillabaisse (fish soup from Provence)

• “bouillabaisse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).