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printanier

printanier adjective: prepared with spring vegetables.

Adjective

printanier (not comparable)

  1. (postpositional) Prepared with spring vegetables.
    • Today, for example, he had dined on the finest entrecôte steak he had ever tasted; lunched on a superb braised oxtail printanière; breakfasted on broiled kippers and Wiltshire bacon.1985, Marshall Jevons, chapter 16, in The Fatal Equilibrium, page 173

Noun

printanier (plural printaniers)

  1. A soup made with spring vegetables.

Forms of printanier

Adjective
alternative formprintanière
Noun
pluralprintaniers

Origin of printanier

Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).

Questions about printanier

What does printanier mean?
Printanier means prepared with spring vegetables.
What part of speech is printanier?
Printanier can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near printanier in the dictionary

  1. printabilities
  2. printability
  3. printable
  4. printableness
  5. printables
  6. printanier
  7. printaniers
  8. printanière
  9. printbed
  10. printbeds
  11. printbound

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