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cawl.

A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.

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Meaning & usage

noun/kaʊl/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/kəʉl/
  1. A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables.

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Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Welsh cawl, itself borrowed from Latin caulis (“stalk or stem of a plant, particularly a cabbage”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw(ǝ)l, *kh₂ulós, or *kowos (“tubular bone; pipe”). The English word is a doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.

noun/kɔːl/Received-Pronunciation/kɔl/General-American
  1. Alternative spelling of caul (“a membrane or veil, especially over a baby's head”).

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Where this word comes from

A variant of caul.

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