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ǁ Couscous1, couscoussou. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. ǁ Couscous1, couscoussou Also 7 cuscus, 9 kus-kus, kous-kous; 7 cuscusu, cooscoosoos, 8 cuscussu, -cosoo, -casow, 9 coos-, couscoosoo, couscousou, kouskoussou. [a. F. couscous (also improp. couscou, couscoussou), a. Arab. kuskus, f. kaskasa to pound or bruise small.] An African dish made of flour granulated, and cooked by steaming over the vapor of meat or broth.

1 1600.  J. Pory, trans. Leo’s Africa, 142. In winter they [of Fez] haue sodden flesh, together with a kinde of meate called Cuscusu.

2 1695.  Motteux, St. Olon’s Morocco, 87. Their standing Dish is some Cooscoosoos, a Paste made with fine Flower, which … has been boil’d with some young Pidgeons, Fowls, or Mutton.

3 1753.  Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Cuscasow, the name of a Moorish dish eaten in Egypt.

4 1759.  trans. Adanson’s Voy. Senegal, 55. They sat cross-legged … round a large wooden bowl full of couscous; which is a thick-grained pap, made of two sorts of millet.

5 c. 1790.  Willock, Voy., 112. Bringing us a dish … called cuscosoo. It is made of flour, wet … after which they rub it between their hands, till it forms itself … like barley-corns…. Underneath it they stew a fowl, mutton, or beef, with onions … the steam of which gives a nice relish to the small particles above.

6 1849.  W. S. Mayo, Kaloolah, 258. A large bowl of cooscoosoo.

7 1874.  F. W. Pavy, Treat. Food (1875), 243. The Kous-kous, Couscous, or Couscousou, of the Arabs, which forms a national food in Algeria.

8   ¶ See also CUSCUS.

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