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1866 Crown Princess of Prussia Let. 11 Sept. in Your Dear Letter (1971) 97 I have all their favourite dishes cooked..for them—goulash for the Hungarians, and polenta and macaroni for the Italians.

1900 F. B. Workman & W. H. Workman Ice world Himálaya 193 Irish stews and goulasches, composed of animal odds and ends.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 27 Sept. 5/1 The national Hungarian dishes of Gulyas, or ragout, and Paprikahuhn.

1915 P. G. Wodehouse Something Fresh viii In his hour of affliction it soothed him to read of Hungarian Goulash and Escalloped Brains.

1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub i Sucking-pig, celery, and goulasch.

1958 W. Bickel tr. R. Hering Dict. Classical & Mod. Cookery 426 Goulash, a brown beef stew of Hungarian origin, prepared with beef, veal, lamb or pork or a mixture of all with plenty of sliced onions, paprika and other ingredients.

1963 R. Carrier Great Dishes of World 160/1 Hungarian veal gulyas.

1927 in E. V. Shepard Correct Contract Bridge (1930) 245 When all four players pass, no bid having been made, and the players desire to play a Goulash, the cards shall be redealt by the same dealer... No shuffling of any kind permitted.

1930 E. V. Shepard Correct Contract Bridge 129 Each player arranges all the cards of a suit in sequence before a goulash deal.

1930 M. Kerwin How to bid at Contract Bridge xv. 47 In goulashes lies the greatest gambling element of Contract.

1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer Bridge Player's Dict. 108 For a goulash hand the cards..are dealt in a manner likely to produce freakish distribution.

1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott Official Encycl. Bridge 222/1 Goulash, a deal in which the cards are not shuffled, and are dealt five to each player for two circuits, and finally three to each player.