reinette
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French reinette.
Noun edit
reinette (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 edit
any of various kinds of apple
References edit
- “reinette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Further reading edit
French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French raine (“frog”) + -ette; influenced by reine (“queen”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
reinette 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.