Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A seasoning composed of finely diced sautéed vegetables and herbs and sometimes diced ham, bacon, or salt pork.

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  • noun A combination of diced onions, carrots, celery and herbs sautéed in oil or butter as used in French cooking.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Charles Pierre Gaston François de Lévis, Duc de Mirepoix, (1699–1757), French diplomat.]

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  • See aromatic vegetables and trinity.

    February 13, 2008

  • "It is probable that one of these days the common sense of mankind will rise in rebellion against this word and abolish it. What is the Duke of Mirepoix to us because his wife was amiable to Louis XV.?

    If she be not fair to me,

    What care I how fair she be?

    The Duke of Mirepoix made himself convenient to the king, and his name is now convenient to the people—the convenient name for the faggot of vegetables that flavours a stew or a sauce."

    - 'Kettner's Book of the Table', London, 1877, https://archive.org/details/b21528688/page/n21/mode/2up


    June 9, 2022