cresson
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See also: Cresson
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French cresson, from Old French kerson, from Frankish *krassjō (compare German Kresse).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /kʁə.sɔ̃/, /kʁɛ.sɔ̃/ ~ /kʁe.sɔ̃/
Audio (France (Saint-Maurice-de-Beynost)): (file) Audio (France (Massy)): (file) Audio (France (Somain)): (file)
Noun
[edit]cresson m (plural cressons)
- watercress
- 1857, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary […][1], Paris: Michel Lévy Frères:
- […] et près d'eux, derrière le vitrage, en plein soleil, un petit jet d'eau gargouillait dans un bassin de marbre où, parmi du cresson et des asperges, trois homards engourdis s'allongeaient jusqu'à des cailles, toutes couchées en pile, sur le flanc.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Vietnamese: cải xoong
Further reading
[edit]- “cresson”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Frankish *kressō (compare German Kresse).
Noun
[edit]cresson m (plural cressons)
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