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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 603 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PILAU , a favourite Eastern dish, consisting essentially of See also:

rice, boiled with mutton or other See also:meat, See also:fowl or See also:fish, and flavoured with spices, raisins, &c. The word appears in See also:Persian, See also:Turkish and See also:Urdu, and has been adopted in See also:European See also:languages. The See also:form pilaff, showing the Turkish See also:pronunciation, is also See also:common.

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