Parmentier
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of Parmentier
1905–10; named after A. A. Parmentier (1737–1813), French promoter of economic botany
Example Sentences
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"It's a planet that shouldn't exist," study co-author Vivien Parmentier, a researcher at the Observatory of Côte d'Azur in Nice, France, said in the same statement.
From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023
A cousin to cottage pie or shepherd’s pie, hachis Parmentier is the kind of dish that thrifty French cooks might make at home with leftover boiled or roasted beef.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2023
It's Hachis Parmentier, a dish of mince and mashed potato - sometimes likened to a shepherd's pie.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2022
Rob Parmentier, chief executive of Marquis Yachts in Green Bay, Wis., said sales to some of the company’s biggest export markets had stalled as a result of the tariffs.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2019
Parmentier could have called out any number and it wouldn’t have mattered, it wouldn’t have created any impact at all.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
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