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bouquet garni

bouquet garni noun: a bundled mixture of herbs or dried herbs used as a flavouring for stews, soups, and sauces.

bouquet garni: a bundled mixture of herbs or dried herbs used as a flavouring for stews, soups, and sauces
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Noun

bouquet garni (plural bouquets garnis)

  1. A bundled mixture of herbs or dried herbs used as a flavouring for stews, soups, and sauces.
    • In the past, the bouquet garni was a prescribed mixture of thyme, bay leaf, and parsley. But thankfully the traditional formula has changed as cooking methods have become less regimented.2010, Ruth Lively, Cooking from the Garden, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 117

Forms of bouquet garni

pluralbouquets garnis

Origin of bouquet garni

Borrowed from French bouquet garni (literally “garnished bouquet”).

Questions about bouquet garni

What does bouquet garni mean?
Bouquet garni means a bundled mixture of herbs or dried herbs used as a flavouring for stews, soups, and sauces.
What part of speech is bouquet garni?
Bouquet garni is a noun.
What is the plural of bouquet garni?
The plural of bouquet garni is bouquets garnis.

Words near bouquet garni in the dictionary

  1. bountyhed
  2. bountying
  3. bountyless
  4. Bouphonia
  5. bouquet
  6. bouquet garni
  7. bouquet of circles
  8. bouquet of spheres
  9. bouquetin
  10. bouquetins
  11. bouquetlike

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