à l'étuvée

[a-ley-ty-vey]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

French.

stewed.

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The food of the French is highly artificial, delicately prepared and served, and flavoured with infinite art: vol au vent à la reine and Massenet, petits pois à l'etuvée and Gounod, oeuf Ste. Clotilde and César Franck, all strike the tongue and the ear quite pleasantly.