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Spanish rice

noun

: rice cooked with onions, green peppers, and tomatoes

Full Definition of SPANISH RICE

:  rice cooked with onions, green pepper, and tomatoes
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First Known Use of SPANISH RICE

1928

Rhymes with SPANISH RICE

asking price, break the ice, cockatrice, comma splice, dirty rice, edelweiss, hammer price, imprecise, market price, merchandise, on thin ice, overprice, paradise, point-device, reserve price, roll the dice, sacrifice, sticker price, underprice, water ice, wellhead price

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