champignon
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of champignon
1570–80; < Middle French, apparently ≪ Vulgar Latin *campīn ( us ) of the field ( see camp 1, -ine 1) + Latin -iōn- -ion
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As champagne was being poured in the galley, the French contingent's well-meaning but far-from-fluent American stewardess announced that "champignon " would soon be served.
From Time Magazine Archive
Concerned, Paris officials dispatched special champignon sherlocks to inspect incoming truckloads of wild mushrooms at the central market, and the Pasteur Institute stepped up shipments of an antitoxin serum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Berkeley says the French word "champignon" was originally scarcely of wider signification than our word "mushroom," though now classical in the sense of fleshy fungi generally.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
The fairy-ring champignon Marasmius oreades, Fr., though small, is plentiful, and one of the most delicious of edible fungi.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
This champignon possesses the advantage of drying readily, and preserving its aroma for a long time.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
In surroundings that range from the clubby to the shabby, you can dine on everything from tartes aux champignons and Eritrean foul to braised rabbit ragout and lobster rolls, Vietnamese style.
From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2013
The actor amused the locals by referring to his fellow jurors as "mes champignons" - "my mushrooms", instead of "my companions".
From BBC ● May 23, 2011
Escargots with parsley-garlic butter, puff pastry and champignons de Paris.
From Washington Post
Incident on Park Ave.:—A puffy old gallant with a pince-nez cocked at a jaunty angle in his buttonhole stopped at the Ritz Tower, for a fillip of rhon chaude avec champignons aux nuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is very good, yes, the champignons I choose myself.
From Juggernaut by Campbell, Alice
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