printanier
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French printanier (“spring-like, vernal”).
Adjective edit
printanier (not comparable)
- (postpositive) Prepared with spring vegetables.
- 1985, Marshall Jevons, chapter 16, in The Fatal Equilibrium, page 173:
- Today, for example, he had dined on the finest entrecôte steak he had ever tasted; lunched on a superb braised oxtail printanière; breakfasted on broiled kippers and Wiltshire bacon.
Noun edit
printanier (plural printaniers)
- A soup made with spring vegetables.
French edit
Etymology edit
From Old French printans (“spring”) + -ier.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
printanier (feminine printanière, masculine plural printaniers, feminine plural printanières)
Further reading edit
- “printanier”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.