printanier
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”)
Adjective
printanier (not comparable)
- (postpositive) Prepared with spring vegetables.
- 1985, Marshall Jevons, The Fatal Equilibrium, chapter 16, 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.
- 1985, Marshall Jevons, The Fatal Equilibrium, chapter 16, page 173:
Noun
printanier (plural printaniers)
- A soup made with spring vegetables.
French
Etymology
From Old French printans (“spring”) + -ier
Pronunciation
Adjective
printanier (feminine printanière, masculine plural printaniers, feminine plural printanières)
Further reading
- “printanier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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