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‖ matelote, n.|matlɔt|
Also 8–9 matelotte, 9 matelot.
[Fr., f. matelot sailor.]
1. A dish of fish served in a sauce of wine, onions and other seasoning, such as mushrooms, oysters, etc.; also, a dish of other viands similarly dressed.
1730–6Bailey (fol.), Matelotte [in Cookery], victuals dressed after the seamens way. 1747H. Glasse Cookery 32 A Pig Matelote. 1759W. Verral Cookery xviii. 97 This sauce may serve for several good uses; but for your matelotte prepare it with a ladle or two of your cullis, with a few nice button mushrooms. 1818Moore Fudge Fam. Paris xii. 128 The bliss Of an eel matelote. 1823Scott Quentin D. Pref., The matelot of pike and eels. 1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 47 An unctuous matelotte of eels.
2. An old sailors' dance, in duple rhythm, similar to the hornpipe. rare—0.
1890in Century Dict.
Hence matelote v. trans., to make into a matelote (sense 1).
1844Thackeray Greenwich Wks. 1886 XXIII. 381, I have tasted him [the eel] charmingly matelotted with mushrooms and onions. |