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printanier

[ French pran-ta-nyey ]

adjective

  1. (of food) prepared or garnished with mixed fresh vegetables.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of printanier1

1860–65; < French: literally, of spring, Middle French, equivalent to Old French prin ( s ) tan ( s ) spring (< Latin prīmum tempus literally, first season; prime, temporal 1 ) + -ier -ier 2
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Example Sentences

There’s just a little soup, printanier; yes, they can make soup here; then a cut of salmon—and after that the beefsteak.

March 29 Printanier Soup Broiled Chicken, Oyster Sauce *Duchesse Potatoes String Beans Watercress, French Dressing Cheese Biscuits Lemon Meringue Pie Coffee *Duchesse Potatoes—Wash, peel and boil two pounds potatoes, drain off water and dry in oven, then rub through sieve, add 3 egg yolks, 2 tablespoons Crisco, 1 tablespoon cream, seasoning salt, pepper and grated nutmeg.

One of the "chimney-builders," whose smirched face was lighted up by the candle, and in whom Marius recognized, in spite of his daubing, Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, lifted above M. Leblanc's head a sort of bludgeon made of two balls of lead, at the two ends of a bar of iron.

Still, in spite of his mournful preoccupation, he could not refrain from saying to himself that this prowler of the barriers with whom Jondrette was talking resembled a certain Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, whom Courfeyrac had once pointed out to him as a very dangerous nocturnal roamer.

This Panchaud, alias Printanier, alias Bigrenaille, figured later on in many criminal trials, and became a notorious rascal.

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