flageolet

¹ American  

[flaj-uh-let, -ley] / ˌflædʒ əˈlɛt, -ˈleɪ /

noun

1. a small end-blown flute with four finger holes in front and two in the rear.

2. any fipple flute.

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flageolet ² American  

[fla-zhaw-le] / fla ʒɔˈlɛ /

noun

French.

• flageolets
  plural

1. a green baby lima bean.

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flageolet ¹ British  

/ ˌflædʒəˈlɛt /

noun

1. a high-pitched musical instrument of the recorder family having six or eight finger holes

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flageolet ² British  

/ ˈflædʒəˌleɪ /

noun

1. the pale green immature seed of a haricot bean, cooked and eaten as a vegetable

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• flageolets
  plural

Etymology

Origin of flageolet

1650–60; < French, spelling variant of Old French flajolet, equivalent to flajol flute (< Vulgar Latin *flabeolum, derivative of Latin flāre to blow ² ) + -et -et

Example Sentences

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Ahmed Suliman, who runs his namesake cafe, serves a Middle Eastern menu of cabbage rolls, flageolet bean stews and chicken hindquarter with shatta and garlic sauce.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 24, 2023

He swaddles roasted lingcod in salty, slightly crisp prosciutto-like French ham and nestles the package among flageolet beans cooked to creaminess in a ham hock broth.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2017

Son Hector was allowed to toy with the flute, the flageolet, the guitar, but medicine was to be his profession.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bogus lectures on anatomy are given by horn-spectacled Dr. Rockwell, who also plays a flageolet.

From Time Magazine Archive

Once, when he had come on Alan unawares, he heard him playing the flageolet.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

It was in September, so all the ingredients were in season: courgettes, tomatoes, green beans, peas, basil, flageolets – and loads of garlic.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 8, 2019

To the west, the neighborhood was older, full of businesses like Le Cristal, a grotty, busy brasserie where a creaky-voiced waitress served me roast lamb in a flood of flageolets.

From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2011

She also cooks dinner at home around 6:30, relying on bourgeois fare like gigot with flageolets.

From Time Magazine Archive

The priests again recite the gayatri and the prayer “may the winds blow sweet,” &c., and add the prescribed prayers, which should be followed by the music of flageolets, lutes, drums, &c.

From The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices by Anonymous

I made them flageolets of reeds, on which they acquired considerable skill.

From The Swiss Family Robinson; or Adventures in a Desert Island by Johann David Wyss