printanier
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).
Adjective[edit]
printanier (not comparable)
- (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[edit]
printanier (plural printaniers)
- A soup made with spring vegetables.
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French printans (“spring”) + -ier.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
printanier (feminine printanière, masculine plural printaniers, feminine plural printanières)
Further reading[edit]
- “printanier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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