Definition of "bouillabaisse" [bouillabaisse]

• A highly seasoned stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish. (noun)
• A combination of various different, often incongruous elements: a bouillabaisse of special interests. (noun)

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• "I wonder, as you do, why the family was so elated that he had made this amazing dish (which sounds like French bouillabaisse from the very brief description)?"
• "What the fishermen did was to take these small fish and turn them into a soup that is most famously known as bouillabaisse, which has become such a classic that there are restaurants specializing in it."
• "The Divers went to Nice and dined on a bouillabaisse, which is a stew of rock fish and small lobsters, highly seasoned with saffron, and a bottle of cold Chablis."