gumbo-limbo

/guhm-boh-lim-boh/US // ˈgʌm boʊˈlɪm boʊ //

秋葵浓汤

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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plural gum·bo-lim·bos.
- : a tropical American tree, Bursera simaruba, having reddish bark and yielding a sweet, aromatic resin used in varnishes.

Lena Richard was a black caterer and owner of the Gumbo House who published New Orleans Cookbook in 1940.
But she also recognizes that it places women who are told that they screened for HPV in a frustrating limbo.
Keeping him in limbo seems to be the preferred punishment for him in the eyes of the Iranian authorities.
The warring courts that left two men in legal limbo and ultimately resolved nothing?
The 26 cases the Center found moved into that legal limbo when the courts sent out letters.
We're stationed out here in this limbo to watch Saturn and report any activity we see coming from there.
The chamberlain, with an ineffable gesture, wafted the taxi-cab away into some limbo appointed for waiting vehicles.
He took me up to my own room, and I heard him going out to wake Limbo to harness, and at last heard him driving away in our coach.
We cleared the gumbo cut west of the Beaver at a pretty good clip, in order to make the grade on the other side.
Let the cult of that lusty Titan, the Limpet, sink awhile into the limbo of outworn idolatries.