langouste
Americannoun
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langoustes
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of langouste
French, from Old Provençal langosta, perhaps from Latin lōcusta lobster, locust
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Her "Modern Cookery For Teaching and the Trade: Volume 2" resounds with the minutiae of French dishes like salmis of pheasant and langouste à la parisienne.
From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2021
Lobster as here served to take the place of the French langouste, tastes much like deviled lobster.
From Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them by Cora Moore
The descriptions of the lobster and the langouste are particularly minute, and the comparison or contrast between the two is drawn with elaborate precision.
From The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield by R.W. Livingstone
He ate a small portion of langouste with an exquisite salad, and drank a single glass of chablis.
From Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo by William Le Queux
It was curious to see the dread shown by the common lobster to the langouste.
From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser
Instead of the pie in the sky offered by constructivism, they contemplated the langoustes on the table, bringing their sensuous embodiment to an extraordinary pitch of imaginative precision in which mere fantasy had no role.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three of these reservoirs are reserved for fish, the others for crustacea—lobsters and langoustes.
From Brittany & Its Byways by Mrs. Bury Palliser
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