Port. /fay'zhoo ah"dah/ ; Eng. /fay jwah"deuh/ , n. Brazilian Cookery.
a dish of rice and black beans baked with various kinds of meat and sausage.
[
feijão bean, earlier feijoes (pl.) faseolus, dim. of faselus a legume, perh. the cowpea pháselos; see -ADE 1 ]