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Gumbo   /gˈəmboʊ/   Listen
Gumbo

noun
1.
Any of various fine-grained silty soils that become waxy and very sticky mud when saturated with water.  Synonym: gumbo soil.
2.
Tall coarse annual of Old World tropics widely cultivated in southern United States and West Indies for its long mucilaginous green pods used as basis for soups and stews; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus.  Synonyms: Abelmoschus esculentus, Hibiscus esculentus, lady's-finger, okra, okra plant.
3.
Long mucilaginous green pods; may be simmered or sauteed but used especially in soups and stews.  Synonym: okra.
4.
A soup or stew thickened with okra pods.



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... the mud of the semi-destroyed village of Ansauville, several miles back of the front. A broad, shallow stream, then at the flood, wound through and over most of the village site. Walking anywhere near the border of the water, one pulled about with him pounds of tenacious, black gumbo. Dogs and hogs, ducks and horses, and men,—all were painted ...
— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons
 
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... purchase for the straw had not yet been removed from them. His astonishment at Paul's refusal to drink was so great that it quieted him for a moment; but he soon broke forth again on the resources of the country, depositing divers samples of what appeared to be black mud on the table, which he called gumbo. ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton
 
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... of the fine," said Dink indignantly. "You see what I do. Here's Beekstein and Gumbo Binks been laying around as waste material and the whole house kicking because we've been stuck with two midnight-oilers. Now what do I do? I utilize them. I make them a credit to the house, ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson
 
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... retain a simple and unaffected goodness of practical charity toward the unelect, such as makes one marvel. You may be predestined to be lost, but while you're here you shall lack no jelly, wine, soup, chicken-with-cream, preserves, gumbo, neither such marvelous raised bread as Miss Sally Ruth knows how to make with a perfection ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler
 
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... for us cullud folks. De cabins am two and some three rooms and dey all built of logs and chinked with a piece of wood and daubed with dirt to fill de cracks. De way we'uns fix dat dirt am take de clay or gumbo which am sticky when it am wet. Dat dirt am soaked with water till it stick together and den hay or straw am mixed with it. When sich mud am daubed in de cracks it stay and dem cabins ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. - Texas Narratives, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
 
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