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Pilau

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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a favourite Eastern dish, consisting essentially of rice, boiled with mutton or other meat, fowl or fish, and flavoured with spices, raisins, &c. The word appears in Persian, Turkish and Urdu, and has been adopted in European languages. The form pilaf, showing the Turkish pronunciation, is also common.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Pilau'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/pilau.html. 1910.
 
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