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noun a spicy dish that originated in northern Africa; consists of pasta steamed with a meat and vegetable stew
noun a pasta made in northern Africa of crushed and steamed semolina
originBorrowed from French couscous, from Arabic كُسْكُس (kuskus), from a Berber language. First use appears c. 1593.
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