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sanquette

sanquette is the alternative form 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

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Sanquette

Sanquette

  1. A female given name.
    • Admissions: Mrs. Mary Boyd, Sanquette Benson, Mrs. Mildred Tolbert, David Sanders, Mrs. Alma Scott, Bernice Hackett, […]1966 December 5, “Brewer Hospital: Nov. 25-Dec. 1”, in The Index-Journal, 47th year, number 258, Greenwood, S.C., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, column 1
    • Survivors are […] one great-great-grandchild, Sanquette Suffo; […]1979 March 16, “[Funeral Notices] Swanson”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume 111, number 191, Atlanta, Ga., →OCLC, page 28-D, column 2

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Sanquette

Sanquette

  1. A surname.
    • New Orleans, Feb. 6.—Jacques Sanquette, aged 45 years, was run over by a float this morning and killed.1877 February 6, “[New Orleans.] Fatal Accident.”, in Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer, volume XXXIII, number 31, Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, front page, column 7
    • Judges’ Chambers.—Before the Masters.—A to K cases attended by counsel: […] L to Z, not attended by counsel, at 11: […] Sanquette v Eyre—[…]1883 August 26, “Law Notices.—Monday, Aug. 27.”, in The Observer, number 4,814, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 6, column 4

Forms of sanquette

pluralsanquettes

Origin of sanquette

From French sanquette.

Probably a variant of Sanquetta, an Italian name possibly ultimately from Latin sānctus (“sacred; holy”).

Questions about sanquette

What does sanquette mean?
Sanquette means a female given name.
What is sanquette the alternative form of?
Sanquette is the alternative form of sanguette.
What part of speech is sanquette?
Sanquette is a proper noun.

Words near sanquette in the dictionary

  1. Sanpete County
  2. sanpietrini
  3. sanpietrino
  4. Sanpoil
  5. Sanpoils
  6. sanquette
  7. sanquettes
  8. Sanquhar
  9. sanquinarine
  10. Sanremo
  11. Sanroman

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