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sanguettes

sanguettes is the plural of sanguette.

Meaning of sanguette

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

Questions about sanguettes

What is sanguettes the plural of?
Sanguettes is the plural of sanguette.

Words near sanguettes in the dictionary

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

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