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fleur de sel

fleur de sel noun: floating salt crystals skimmed from the surface of evaporation ponds, used in cooking.

fleur de sel: floating salt crystals skimmed from the surface of evaporation ponds, used in cooking
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Noun

fleur de sel (usually uncountable, plural fleurs de sel)

  1. (usually) Floating salt crystals skimmed from the surface of evaporation ponds, used in cooking.
    • Egyptian salt from Alexandria was highly appreciated, especially their fleur de sel, the light crystals skimmed off the surface of the water.2002, Mark Kurlansky, Salt: A World History
    • Fleur de sel is less bitter than regular sea salt, they say, because it has very little magnesium.2019 May 23, Zoe Williams, “Posh salt is having a moment – does enjoying it make me pretentious?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Forms of fleur de sel

pluralfleurs de sel

Origin of fleur de sel

Borrowed from French fleur de sel (literally “salt flower, salt blossom”).

Questions about fleur de sel

What does fleur de sel mean?
Fleur de sel means floating salt crystals skimmed from the surface of evaporation ponds, used in cooking.
What part of speech is fleur de sel?
Fleur de sel is a noun.
What is the plural of fleur de sel?
The plural of fleur de sel is fleurs de sel.

Words near fleur de sel in the dictionary

  1. flettons
  2. Fletts
  3. fleur
  4. fleur de lis
  5. Fleur de Lys
  6. fleur de sel
  7. fleur-de-lis
  8. fleur-de-lised
  9. fleur-de-lises
  10. fleur-de-lisses
  11. fleur-de-lisée

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