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florentine

/ˈflɒɹəntaɪn//ˈflɒɹəntaɪn/

florentine adjective: cooked or served with spinach.

florentine: cooked or served with spinach
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Adjective (1)

florentine (not comparable)

  1. (postpositional) Cooked or served with spinach.
    • Eggs florentine is on the menu.

Noun (1)

florentine (countable and uncountable, plural florentines)

  1. A biscuit consisting mostly of nuts and preserved fruit, usually coated with chocolate on one side.
    • They boyle it alſo, and after dry it and bray it, and of this bran, with egges, hony, milke, and butter of Cocos, they make Florentines, and verie good belly-timber.1625, Samuel Purchas, “Their Cocos and other fruits and food, their Trades and trading, Creatures profitable and hurtfull. Of Male their principall Iland. Their Houſes, Candou, Languages, Apparell.”...
  2. (obsolete) A kind of durable silk.
  3. (obsolete) A kind of pudding or tart or meat pie.
    • Stealing custards, tarts, and florentines.1606, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Woman-Hater”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, Act V, scene i

Adjective (2) capitalized: Florentine

Florentine (comparative more Florentine, superlative most Florentine)

  1. Of, from or relating to the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
  2. A locality in the Central Highlands council area and the Derwent Valley council area, central Tasmania, Australia.

Noun (2) capitalized: Florentine

Florentine (plural Florentines)

  1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Florence, Tuscany, Italy.
    • The safety of Florence, which means even more than the welfare of Florentines, now demands severity, as it once demanded mercy.1863, George Eliot, Romola, Volume III, Book III, Chapter XIII, page 137
  2. (alternative) Alternative form of florentine (“biscuit”).

Forms of florentine

Noun
pluralflorentines
pluralFlorentines
Adjective
comparativemore Florentine
superlativemost Florentine

Origin of florentine

Borrowed from French florentin.

From Latin Flōrentīnus, from Flōrentia (“Florence”) + -īnus.

Words formed from florentine

Phrases with florentine

Questions about florentine

What does florentine mean?
Florentine means cooked or served with spinach.
What part of speech is florentine?
Florentine can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce florentine?
Florentine is pronounced /ˈflɒɹəntaɪn/.

Words near florentine in the dictionary

  1. Florendo
  2. Florendos
  3. florenskyite
  4. florensovite
  5. Florent
  6. florentine
  7. Florentine beefsteak
  8. Florentine beefsteaks
  9. Florentine flask
  10. Florentine flogging
  11. Florentine omelette

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