crapaudine

Noun

crapaudine (countable and uncountable, plural crapaudines)

1. A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
   • “Chicken cutlets,” said she, “or crapaudine, and some serniki — only let them be as good as they were last night.1861, Lady Charlotte Pepys, Domestic Sketches in Russia - Volume 1, page 71
   • 4. Crapaudine of chicken , mashed potatoes1915, Hotel Monthly - Volume 23, Issues 262-273, page 51
2. A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
   • Spring chickens singed, split, washed, backbone andd breastbone removed, trussed out like a frog, seasoned with salt and peper, rolled in olive oil, broiled well done ; served on toast with crapaudine sauce poured around, garnished with parsley and lemon.1904, Charles Fellows, The Culinary Handbook, page 49
   • Crapaudine Sauce2013, The Picayune's Creole Cook Book, page 163
3. A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
   • A few years ago Herr von Rader and his companions would have been sentenced to quite a curious kind of punishment which was at that time considered in the Foreign Legion to be a radical cure for deserters — a kind of mediaeval torture which, by the way, was not kept for deserters solely, but came...1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Foreign Legion, page 228
   • After several more hours of the crapaudine, the two prisoners were cut down and left chained hand and foot on the ground, exposed to sun, rain, and mosquitoes for twenty-nine days.2000, Alice Bullard, Allen D. Boyer, Exile to Paradise, page 251
4. (obsolete) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.
   • The morbid principle is eliminated without apparent disturbance, and is fixed in a more or less apparent manner on the surface of the skin, or in certain cavities which have external openings. I this category are included glanders, farey, scrofula, lupus, canker of horses' feet, (crapaudine,)...1871, Horace Capron, Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture on the Diseases of Cattle in the United States, page 131
   • The anterior face of the coronet is sometimes the seat of an affection called crapaudine, which is characterized by a peculiar modification of the secretory function of the coronary band, which becomes fissured and cracked after the manner of the bark of an old tree.1892, Armand Goubaux, The Exterior of the horse, page 310
5. A toadstone.
   • A HORN RING, very massive, with a silver bezel, set with a crapaudine, XIVth Century. It was found near Richmond, in Yorkshire.1863, A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, May, 1861
   • In One thousand Notable Things we are directed to set a doubtful crapudine before a living toad, who will disregard it if a forgery, but endeavour to seize it if genuine: "for he envieth much that man should have that stone."1871, W. J. Bernhard Smith, Notes and Queries, page 484
6. A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
   • This is accomplished by a device patterned after the crapaudine (Verbaandert & Melchior 1958) used to calibrate horizontal pendulums.1973, DR Bower, “A sensitive water-level tiltmeter”, in Philosophical Transactions for the Royal Society
   • For position (2), 14 months' data were obtained in azimuth 47.8' (pendulum 87 and crapaudine 103) and three months' in azimuth 315.0" (pendulum 88 and crapaudine 114).1980 August, TF Baker, “Tidal tilt at Llanrwst, North Wales: tidal loading and Earth structure”, in Geophysical Journal International, volume 62, number 2
7. An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
   • The true type of the crapaudine is 4 inches broad at the superior part, and becomes very regularly thinner until it reaches the length of 11 inches, which is the average.1882, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening - Volume 3, page 425
   • One variety of garden beet, crapaudine ( GBC ) from the compagny Semaphor carries the same Hind III ctDNA profile as the male sterile Owen.1988, E. Magnien, Biotechnology Action Programme, page 601
8. (rare) The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
   • A stone door socket (Crapaudine C), associated with a small patch of brick pavement and a large slab of stone forming the threshold of a doorway, was uncovered at a depth of 1.25 m . below surface.1965, Iran - Volumes 3-6, page 64
   • They were mounted as crapaudine doors; i.e., supflat moldings, studded with rosettes, surmounted by a cyma ported by pivots fitted into sockets in threshold and lintel.1973, Encyclopaedia Britannica - Volume 7, page 589