printanier

English

Alternative forms

• printanière

Etymology

Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).

Adjective

printanier (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Prepared with spring vegetables.
   • 1985, Marshall Jevons, chapter 16, in The Fatal Equilibrium, page 173:

     Today, for example, he had dined on the finest entrecôte steak he had ever tasted; lunched on a superb braised oxtail printanière; breakfasted on broiled kippers and Wiltshire bacon.

Noun

printanier (plural printaniers)

1. A soup made with spring vegetables.

French

Etymology

From Old French printans (“spring”) +‎ -ier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁɛ̃.ta.nje/

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Adjective

printanier (feminine printanière, masculine plural printaniers, feminine plural printanières)

1. springlike, vernal

Further reading

• “printanier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.