brown stew

== English == === Pronunciation === === Noun === brown stew (countable and uncountable, plural brown stews) (cooking, dated) A stew in which the meat is browned before being added 1940s, "Me Boys, Have You Any Complaints?"; printed in Jerry Silverman Songs of the British Isles (2012: Mel Bay Publications). →ISBN p. 44: For the duffs are now brown, and the stew is brown stew, They're all fancy names for the scoff. 1959 October 21, Kevin Boland, "Written Answers. - Army Scale of Rations." Dáil Éireann debates Vol. 177 No.1 p.69 cc.54–56: The menu in respect of each day of the week ended 11th September, 1959, for a Dublin Barracks was as follows:— ... [Date] 9-9-59 ... [Dinner] Brown Stew [etc.] (cooking, Caribbean, Jamaica) A stew cooked or served with a brown-coloured sauce ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “stew in which the meat is browned before being added”): white stew