florentine

See also: Florentine

English

eggs florentine

Etymology

From French florentin.

Adjective

florentine (not comparable)

1. Cooked or served with spinach.

   Eggs florentine is on the menu.

Translations

Cooked or served with spinach

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Noun

florentines (1)

florentine (countable and uncountable, plural florentines)

1. 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.

2. (obsolete) A kind of durable silk.

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3. (obsolete) A kind of pudding or tart or meat pie.
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     Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.

Translations

A biscuit of nuts and fruit

• German: Florentiner (de) m
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French

Adjective

florentine

1. feminine singular of florentin

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /florenˈtine/

Adjective

florentine

1. genitive feminine singular of florentin
2. dative feminine singular of florentin
3. nominative feminine plural of florentin
4. accusative feminine plural of florentin
5. genitive feminine plural of florentin
6. dative feminine plural of florentin
7. nominative neuter plural of florentin
8. accusative neuter plural of florentin
9. genitive neuter plural of florentin
10. dative neuter plural of florentin

Noun

florentine m

1. vocative singular of florentin