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Cawl

//kaʊl// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A traditional Welsh soup, typically made with beef, lamb, or salted bacon with carrot, leeks, potatoes, swedes, and other seasonal vegetables. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of caul (“a membrane or veil, especially over a baby's head”). alt-of, alternative

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

A variant of caul.

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