pilaff
- n rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes
- He impressed London hostesses by his great appetite for oriental pilaff (his aides cornered the dwindling London rice stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling .
- The Duke, Duchess and guests sat down at a long table, washed down caviar, crawfish, pilaff de monton and pear melba with an Alsatian vintage and Champagne rose ('28).
- But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet of spitted laham-mashwy and rice pilaff for the ship's officers.