Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
okra .
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Examples
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Best thing to do with ochra (but it might need to be fresh) is to make soupa kanje (you need palm oil too).
Hungry? Kate Fleurange 2008
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There were stews of meat, onions, sweet pippins, and _ochra_, which deserve notice.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various
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Beecher, whose estimable cook-book you certainly must get, mentions that ochra seeds or gumbo cannot be told from Java; an army correspondent has since reported coffee made at the South from oker seeds, doubtless the same; another found in use the sweet potato, roasted, and flavored with coffee; while a friend has just described the most enticing beverage made from chickory, -- the root being stripped and dried under the stove.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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The only native vegetable which I like much is the ochra, which tastes like asparagus not with quite so delicate a flavour.
Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845
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Dice up some red & green peppers, a hot pepper or two to your taste, onions, some ochra, if you can find it, and stew it up with the Zatarains mix.
Wired Campus 2010
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Dice up some red & green peppers, a hot pepper or two to your taste, onions, some ochra, if you can find it, and stew it up with the Zatarains mix.
Wired Campus 2010
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green peppers, a hot pepper or two to your taste, onions, some ochra, if you can find it, and stew it up with the Zatarains mix.
Wired Campus 2010
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green peppers, a hot pepper or two to your taste, onions, some ochra, if you can find it, and stew it up with the Zatarains mix.
Wired Campus 2010
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