Etymology

langoustine

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Today it means: A small edible European orange-pink lobster, Nephrops norvegicus Full definition →

French langoustine
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The story

  1. Frenchlangouste
  2. Frenchine
  3. Frenchlangoustine
  4. English todaylangoustine

Borrowed from French langoustine.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.