reinette
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French reinette.
Noun[edit]
reinette (plural reinettes)
- Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.
- 1865, Georgiana Hill, How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing that Fruit, page 48:
- Make choice of some small reinette apples, pare them, and prick them thoroughly with a coarse needle to render them as absorbent as possible; put them into a jar to stand inside a saucepan of boiling water, […]
- 2011, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:
- Then a flameproof casserole dish–preferably the flat type peculiar to Normandy–should be lined with sliced apple and onion. Reinette apples are supposed to be the best.
Translations[edit]
any of various kinds of apple
References[edit]
- “reinette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading[edit]
French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French raine (“frog”) + -ette; influenced by reine (“queen”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
reinette f (plural reinettes)
- reinette (group of apple cultivars)
Descendants[edit]
- → English: reinette, rennet
- → German: Renette
- → Italian: renetta
- → Polish: reneta
- → Portuguese: reineta, raineta
- → Spanish: reineta
Further reading[edit]
- “reinette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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