Definition of "matelote" []

• A fish stew that is cooked in a wine sauce. (noun)

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• "I passed the turn where we used to halt when we were learning how to ride in front of the guns, past the little house where, on rare holidays, the boys could eat a matelote, which is fish boiled in wine, and so on to the place where the river is held by a weir and opens out into a kind of lake."
• "Lanner, the refined souprette, with my bust alla brooche and the padbun under my matelote, showing my jigotty sleeves and all my new toulong touloosies."
• "One of the restaurant's specialties, matelote of grouper with mushroom and artichoke ravioli, would be served."