langouste
Americannoun
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langoustes
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
Artichokes, prawns, potatoes, langouste, eggs, lobsters, crabs, are good all along the Breton coast; and at Quimper, at the Hôtel de l'Epée, you can—if you are in luck—get fresh sardines.
From The Gourmet's Guide to Europe by Lieut.-Col. (Nathaniel) Newnham-Davis
You take a cooking-pot and put your langouste in it, together with four spoonfuls of olive-oil, an onion and a couple of tomatoes, and boil away until he turns red.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
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
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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