couscous
noun/ˈkʊskʊs/, /ˈkuːskuːs/
/ˈkʊskʊs/, /ˈkuːskuːs/
[uncountable]- a type of North African food made from wheat in very small round pieces; a dish of meat and/or vegetables with couscousTopics Foodc2Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French, from Arabic kuskus, from kaskasa ‘to pound’, probably from Berber, a language spoken in North Africa.
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