Meanings
alternative printanière
- not comparablepostpositionalPrepared with spring vegetables.
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, chapter 16, in The Fatal Equilibrium, page 173
plural printaniers · alternative printanière
- A soup made with spring vegetables.
Origin
- Frenchprintanier“spring-like, vernal”
- Englishprintanier
Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).
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