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galantine

UK/ˈɡaləntiːn/

galantine noun: a spiced, thickened sauce served with fish or poultry.

Noun

galantine (plural galantines)

  1. (historical) A spiced, thickened sauce served with fish or poultry.
    • ‘Have some galantine. I'm going to. Your sole's cold.’1924, Ford Madox Ford, Some Do Not… (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 98
  2. A dish of boned, often stuffed meat (or fish) that has been boiled, and is served cold with its jelly.
    • Of how many creams, jellies, salads, peaches, white soups, grapes, pates, galantines, cups of tea, champagne, and so forth, Lady Clavering partook, it does not become us to say.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 46, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
    • By nine o’clock plates of food were displayed for sale at prices ranging from three to five sous, their contents comprising slices of meat, scraps of game, heads and tails of fishes, bits of galantine, stray vegetables, and, by way of dessert, cakes scarcely cut into, and other confectionery.1888, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, transl., The Fat and the Thin, translation of Le Ventre de Paris by Émile Zola

galantine meaning in Indonesian

galantine in Indonesian

cold meat dish
galantin

Forms of galantine

pluralgalantines

Origin of galantine

From Old French galentine, galantine, variant of galatine, from Latin gelāta (“frozen”) + Old French -ine. Compare gelatin.

Questions about galantine

What does galantine mean?
Galantine means a spiced, thickened sauce served with fish or poultry.
What is galantine in Indonesian?
Galantine in Indonesian is galantin. See Galantine meaning in Indonesian.
What part of speech is galantine?
Galantine is a noun.
How do you pronounce galantine?
Galantine is pronounced /ˈɡaləntiːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of galantine?
The plural of galantine is galantines.

Words near galantine in the dictionary

  1. Galantes
  2. galanthamine
  3. galanthaminium
  4. galanthophile
  5. galanthophiles
  6. galantine
  7. galantines
  8. galanty show
  9. galanty shows
  10. Galapageian
  11. galapago

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