variants or less commonly carbonade
: a beef stew cooked in beer

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Although many traditional beef carbonnade recipes call for stirring the mustard into the stew pot, cooking mustard tames its bite. — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018

Word History

Etymology

French, literally, dish of grilled meat, from Italian carbonata, from carbone charcoal, coal, from Latin carbon-, carbo

First Known Use

1651, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of carbonnade was in 1651

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“Carbonnade.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carbonnade. Accessed 30 Sep. 2026.

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