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BARBECUE (Span. barbacoa)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 384 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BARBECUE (Span. barbacoa) , originally a framework on posts placed over a See also:fire on which to dry or See also:smoke See also:meat; hence, a gridiron for roasting whole animals, and in See also:Cuba an upper See also:floor on which See also:fruit or See also:grain is stored. In the See also:United States the word means an open-See also:air feast, either See also:political or social, where whole animals are roasted and eaten and hogsheads of See also:beer and other vast quantities of See also:food and drink consumed.

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