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Callaloo

2 stages from West African to English.

Today it means a Caribbean dish made from leafy green vegetables, often cooked with coconut milk
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Stage 1 of 2
kalulu
West African · 1700s
"a leafy green vegetable dish"
a leafy green vegetable dish, carried to the Caribbean through the Atlantic slave trade
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callaloo
English · 1770s
"a Caribbean leafy green vegetable dish"
settled as the Caribbean English word for the leafy vegetable stew
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