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florentines

florentines is the plural of florentine.

Meaning of florentine

Noun

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

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Noun capitalized: Florentines

Florentines

  1. (plural) plural of Florentine

Questions about florentines

What is florentines the plural of?
Florentines is the plural of florentine.
What part of speech is florentines?
Florentines is a noun.

Words near florentines in the dictionary

  1. Florentine flask
  2. Florentine flogging
  3. Florentine omelette
  4. Florentine steak
  5. Florentine steaks
  6. florentines
  7. Florentinism
  8. Florentinisms
  9. Florentino
  10. Florentinos
  11. Florentinus

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