A traditional Spanish or Portuguese bread or meal; a coarse grain food.
From Portuguese/Spanish 'garau', possibly derived from Basque or Arabic sources, referring to a type of simple bread or grain-based food of working-class origin.
Words for humble foods like 'garau' often have mysterious origins because poor people's diets weren't written down—we only know these words survived because cooks kept using them.
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