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reinettes

reinettes is the plural of reinette.

Meaning of reinette

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
    Synonyms:
    rennet, renneting

Questions about reinettes

What is reinettes the plural of?
Reinettes is the plural of reinette.

Words near reinettes in the dictionary

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

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