noisette
Americannoun
adjective
noun
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a small round boneless slice of lamb from the fillet or leg
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a chocolate made with hazelnuts
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Etymology
Origin of noisette
1890–95; < French: a round, rather thick slice of fillet or loin of lamb or mutton, diminutive of noix choice part of a cut of meat, literally, nut, kernel < Latin nucem, accusative of nux; see -ette
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In culinary school, I learned that the French term for browned butter is "buerre noisette," which translates to "butter hazelnut."
From Salon ● Nov. 29, 2022
Virtually weightless might also describe the six slim strips of lamb in the rosemary lamb noisette, which at $44 amounted to a skimpy portion.
From New York Times ● Jul. 18, 2014
The climbing tea and noisette roses, forms of R. Chinensis and R. Noisettiana, are useful in the open in the South.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
A noisette on my garden path An ever-swaying shadow throws; But if I pluck it strolling by, I pluck the shadow with the rose.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss
While the delegates ate lobster mousse and lamb noisettes, Yamani bluntly laid out the Saudi terms.
From Time Magazine Archive
The menu: vol-au-vent of sea food, noisettes of lamb with artichokes and asparagus, and strawberry mousse.
From Time Magazine Archive
Clusters of noisettes, or of French or damask roses, where the ground was open enough, stood without a rival, and needing no foil other than the beautiful surrounding of dark evergreen foliage.
From Queechy, Volume II by Warner, Susan
It consisted of plankton soup with chives in chilled bowls, noisettes of lamb with yeast-truffles and bamboo-grass and, in deference to Lindsay, a dessert of Martian lichenberries.
From The Ambassador by Merwin, Sam
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