reinette
English
Canadian reinette (Reinette Grise du Canada)
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Noun
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.
- 1865, Georgiana Hill, How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing that Fruit, page 48:
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for reinette in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
French
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Etymology
From Old French raine (“frog”) + -ette; influenced by reine (“queen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʁɛ.nɛt/, /ʁe.nɛt/
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Descendants
Further reading
- “reinette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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