florentine
See also: Florentine
English
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Etymology
Adjective
florentine (not comparable)
Translations
Cooked or served with spinach
Noun
florentine (countable and uncountable, plural florentines)
- A biscuit consisting mostly of nuts and preserved fruit, usually coated with chocolate on one side.
- Synonym: Florentine
- 1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”, in Pvrchas his Pilgrimes. In Five Bookes. [...] The Second Part., volume II, London: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shop in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose, →OCLC, page 1643 [sic: 1653]:
- They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.
- (obsolete) A kind of durable silk.
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- (obsolete) A kind of pudding or tart or meat pie.
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- Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.
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Translations
A biscuit of nuts and fruit
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French
Adjective
florentine
Romanian
Pronunciation
Adjective
florentine
- genitive feminine singular of florentin
- dative feminine singular of florentin
- nominative feminine plural of florentin
- accusative feminine plural of florentin
- genitive feminine plural of florentin
- dative feminine plural of florentin
- nominative neuter plural of florentin
- accusative neuter plural of florentin
- genitive neuter plural of florentin
- dative neuter plural of florentin
Noun
florentine m
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