vanille

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A form of vanilla — Any tropical climbing orchid of the genus Vanilla (especially Vanilla planifolia), bearing podlike fruit yielding an extract used in flavoring food or in perfumes.

OriginFrench vanille →
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Meanings

nounvanille (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountableArchaic form of vanilla.

    And what is this delicious scent about the air? Vanille? Of course it is; […]

    1871, Charles Kingsley, “The High Woods”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 254
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    Each lovely lady close to a cavalier / Who holds her dear fan while she feeds her smile / On meditative spoonfuls of vanille, / He breathing hot protesting vows of love, / Enough to thaw her cream, and scorch his beard.

    1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, pages 316–317

    The three Benoît girls and Madame Morice were seated round a table furnished with dainty little white cups and saucers, a plate of delicate biscuits, and a chocolatière which breathed odours of vanille.

    [1884], [Mary Elizabeth Braddon], “‘My Soul Failed when he Spake’”, in Ishmael: […], volume I, London: John and Robert Maxwell, […], →OCLC, pages 209–210

Origin

  1. Frenchvanille
  2. Englishvanille

From French vanille.

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APA

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Chicago

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