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reinette

reinette noun: any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.

reinette: any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting
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Noun

reinette (plural reinettes)

  1. Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.
    • Make choice of some small reinette apples, pare them, and prick them thoroughly with a coarse needle to render them as absorbent as possible; put them into a jar to stand inside a saucepan of boiling water, […]1865, Georgiana Hill, How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing that Fruit, page 48
    • Then a flameproof casserole dish–preferably the flat type peculiar to Normandy–should be lined with sliced apple and onion. Reinette apples are supposed to be the best.2011, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines, Allison & Busby, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    rennet, renneting

Synonyms of reinette

Forms of reinette

pluralreinettes
alternative formrennet

Origin of reinette

Borrowed from French reinette.

Questions about reinette

What does reinette mean?
Reinette means any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.
What part of speech is reinette?
Reinette is a noun.
What is the plural of reinette?
The plural of reinette is reinettes.

Words near reinette in the dictionary

  1. Reinertson
  2. Reinertsons
  3. reinervation
  4. reinest
  5. reineth
  6. reinette
  7. reinettes
  8. reinfarction
  9. reinfarctions
  10. reinfect
  11. reinfected

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