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Definition of Pilafs
1. pilaf [n] - See also: pilaf
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilafs
Literary usage of Pilafs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Three Years in Constantinople: Or, Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1844 by Charles White (1846)
"pilafs are various. There is 1, The plain, merely consisting of rice, slowly
boiled in substantial mutton suet, butter, oil, or stock, so that each grain, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1877)
"... covered with carraway seeds, soups, smoking pilafs, and pancakes swimming in
butter and honey were among the chief dishes. ..."
3. Eothen by Alexander William Kinglake (1914)
"... an instant dinner, the great author of pilafs would be standing on deck with
an ancient quadrant in his hands, calmly affecting to take an observation. ..."
4. On Labour: Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues, Its Actual Present and by William Thomas Thornton (1870)
"... an instant dinner, the great author of pilafs would be standing on deck, with
an ancient quadrant in his hands, calmly affecting to take an observation. ..."
5. The Life and Adventures of George Augustus Sala by George Augustus Sala (1895)
"... and there was even a Turkish restaurant, where sham Orientals from the Faubourg
St. Denis brought you sham pilafs and sham kebobs washed ..."
6. An Encyclopædia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of by John Claudius Loudon (1860)
"The first " fs used in great quantities in Constantinople, and mixed with all
their dishes and pilafs, where it is always whole, and never bruised. ..."
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