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sanguette

sanguette noun: a blood dish from rural Occitania made immediately upon exsanguination of livestock by collecting, preparing, and cooking the fresh blood; typically a crepe or pancake but varies by town across Occitania, including Spanish Occitania.

Noun

sanguette (countable and uncountable, plural sanguettes)

  1. A blood dish from rural Occitania made immediately upon exsanguination of livestock by collecting, preparing, and cooking the fresh blood; typically a crepe or pancake but varies by town across Occitania, including Spanish Occitania.
    • ‘Now what was it?’ asked the American. ‘I’m sure the little lady wants to know.’ / ‘It’s a sanguette, a blood pancake[.] […] It’s only chicken blood. You take onions and fry them,’ he said to the room, ‘and breadcrumbs and chopped parsley and slowly the blood of a chicken. It makes a pancake.[…]’1968, Rumer Godden, “L’Élégance”, in Swans & Turtles: Stories, London; Toronto, Ont.; Melbourne, Vic.: Macmillan, →OCLC, page 170
    • Banzo’s pissaladière of muge (a local, Mediterranean fish) is a straightforward masterpiece of zesty, southern French gastronomy. So are his red mullet with wild lettuce and his toothsome sanguette of squab (incredibly juicy fowl!).1996, Douglas E. Easton, Richard E. Burke, “Clos de la Violette: Aix-en-Provence, France”, in The European Gourmet: The Grand Dining Tour of Europe, 2nd edition, Los Angeles, Calif.: Cosmic Gourmet...

Examples of sanguette in a sentence

  • Think of sanguette.” “Yes, but human blood.1996 December, Walter Satterthwait, “The Cassoulet”, in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, volume 41, number 12, Dell Magazines, →ISSN...
  • A very different version of sanguette is made in the Béarn.2011 August 12, Anissa Helou, “An A to Z of offal”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  • Sanguette used to be widely available in France, specifically in what was Occitania, i.e. roughly the southernmost third of the country.2017, Jonathan Meades, “Sanguette”, in The Plagiarist in the Kitchen: A Lifetime’s Culinary Thefts, London: Unbound, →ISBN, page 109:

Forms of sanguette

pluralsanguettes
alternative formsanquette

Origin of sanguette

From French sanguette, from Occitan sanqueta.

Questions about sanguette

What does sanguette mean?
Sanguette means a blood dish from rural Occitania made immediately upon exsanguination of livestock by collecting, preparing, and cooking the fresh blood; typically a crepe or pancake but varies by town across Occitania, including Spanish Occitania.
How do you use sanguette in a sentence?
Think of sanguette.” “Yes, but human blood.
What part of speech is sanguette?
Sanguette is a noun.
What is the plural of sanguette?
The plural of sanguette is sanguettes.

Words near sanguette in the dictionary

  1. Sangsters
  2. sangsue
  3. sangsues
  4. sangu
  5. sangue dormido
  6. sanguette
  7. sanguettes
  8. sangui-
  9. sanguiceis
  10. sanguicel
  11. sanguicels

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