Etymology

meunière

Today it means: Of fish: dredged in flour before being sautéd or pan-fried. Full definition →

French meunière
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The story

  1. French · borrowed frommeunière
  2. English todaymeunière

From French meunière (literally “miller's wife”).

Words from the same roots

Frenchmeunière all →

meunière sauce

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.