reinette

English

Canadian reinette (Reinette Grise du Canada)

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Etymology

Borrowed from French reinette.

Noun

reinette (plural reinettes)

  1. Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.
    Synonyms: rennet, renneting
    Coordinate term: pippin
    • 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.

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French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French raine (frog) + -ette; influenced by reine (queen).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʁɛ.nɛt/, /ʁe.nɛt/
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Noun

reinette f (plural reinettes)

  1. reinette (group of apple cultivars)

Descendants

  • English: reinette, rennet
  • German: Renette
  • Italian: renetta
  • Polish: reneta
  • Portuguese: reineta, raineta
  • Spanish: reineta

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