printanier

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adjective

Prepared with spring vegetables.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectiveprintanier (not comparable)

alternative printanière

  1. 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
nounprintanier (plural printaniers)

plural printaniers · alternative printanière

  1. A soup made with spring vegetables.

Origin

  1. Frenchprintanier“spring-like, vernal”
  2. Englishprintanier

Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).

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APA

printanier. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/printanier

MLA

“printanier.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/printanier. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “printanier,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/printanier.

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