reinette
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French reinette.
Noun
editreinette (plural reinettes)
- Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.
- 1865, Georgiana Hill, How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing that Fruit, page 48:
- 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, […]
- 2011, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:
- Then a flameproof casserole dish–preferably the flat type peculiar to Normandy–should be lined with sliced apple and onion. Reinette apples are supposed to be the best.
Translations
editany of various kinds of apple
References
edit- “reinette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading
editFrench
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old French raine (“frog”) + -ette; influenced by reine (“queen”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editreinette f (plural reinettes)
- reinette (group of apple cultivars)
Descendants
edit- → English: reinette, rennet
- → German: Renette
- → Italian: renetta
- → Polish: reneta
- → Portuguese: reineta, raineta
- → Spanish: reineta
Further reading
edit- “reinette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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