garbanzo
(gɑːˈbænzəʊ)
Also 8 garvanzo.
[Sp.: see calavance.]
The chick-pea, Cicer arietinum.
| 1759 tr. Venegas's Nat. & Civ. Hist. Calif. I. 45 The same success attended the experiments made with..garvanzo, or a kind of pease. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali i. vi. 104 A puchéra, the ingredients of which were beef, bacon, garbanzos, and berdolaga. 1918 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 33 The fat Castilian garbanzos. 1925 Glasgow Herald 31 July 6 These garbanzos or chichis give the peculiar flavour to soups. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse viii. lxi. 998 The ever-present garbanzo or chick-pea. 1950 C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower 275 To taste salt beef and biscuit again, and never again to taste beans and garbanzos. |