Definition of Pistou

1. Noun. A cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pistou

1. a sauce made of olive oil, garlic, basil, and often cheese [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pistou

pistolled
pistolling
pistols
pistols at dawn
piston
piston chamber
piston engine
piston engines
piston pulse
piston ring
piston rings
piston rod
piston rods
pistonlike
pistons
pistou (current term)
pistous
pistrinum supper
pit
pit-a-pat
pit-a-pats
pit-adder
pit-eye
pit-run gravel
pit-yacker
pit-yackers
pit-yakkas
pit adder
pit adders
pit against

Literary usage of Pistou

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Winston's Cumulative Loose-leaf Encyclopedia: A Comprehensive Reference Bookedited by Charles Morris edited by Charles Morris (1921)
"... cylinder of much larger diameter than the tirst, und by this means greater steadiness of pistou-stroke, economy of fuel. Beam Condensing Steam Engine. ..."

2. The International Cyclopedia: A Compendium of Human Knowledge, Rev. with by Selim Hobart Peabody, Charles Francis Richardson (1898)
"... suitable valves alternately above and below the pistou, to push it downward and upward in turn; end this done, his invention was substantially complete. ..."

3. Illustrated Technical Dictionary in Six Languages, English, German, French by Kurt Deinhardt, Alfred Schlomann (1908)
"... boaring surface o[ piston surface (f) de portage du pistou getragener Kolben (m) supported piston, pistou supported by piston rod and tall rod pistou ..."

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