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almond | mirliton |

As a proper noun almond

is .

As a noun mirliton is

a pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote.

almond

English

(wikipedia almond) (Prunus dulcis)

Noun

  • (countable) A type of tree nut.
  • * c. 1430' (reprinted '''1888 ), Thomas Austin, ed., ''Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55 [Early English Text Society, Original Series; 91], London: 374760, page 11:
    • Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke
  • * 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
    • dorr?&
  • 773;', '''d?r?''' adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god ' Almande mylk.
  • (countable) A small deciduous tree in family Rosaceae, Prunus dulcis , that produces almonds.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 3:
    • In early March the almonds are in flower, delicately pink, and there are washes of bright daffodils beneath the orchard trees; you can see women gathering them for market.
  • Other plants that produce almond-like nuts:
  • # , an ornamental shrub in family Rosaceae
  • # , a North American shrub in family Rosaceae
  • # , North American shrub in family Rosaceae
  • # , in family Combretaceae
  • # , in family Proteaceae
  • (uncountable) The colour of the kernel of an almond without its shell and thin seed coat, a creamy off-white colour.
    • (color panel)
  • (uncountable) The color of an almond still covered by its skin, a shade of brown.
  • Anything shaped like an almond; specifically, (anatomy, archaic) a tonsil.
  • * 1828 , David Craigie, Elements of General and Pathological Anatomy
    • The next set are shorter, and are more contracted or acuminated at their posterior end, where they are contiguous to the almonds or tonsils.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Brownish, resembling the colour of an almond nut.

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    mirliton

    English

    (wikipedia mirliton)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote.
  • * 1988 , Rosalind Creasy, Cooking from the garden (page 141)
    • To start your mirliton plant, buy the fruit in a produce-oriented market in spring and plant it in full sunlight in fertile, well-drained soil, leaving the stem half of the fruit out of the ground.
  • * 1994 , Lee Meitzen Grue, Goodbye silver, silver cloud (page 71)
    • One day last summer, Stephon and Scarbaby had been on the way to Neidermayer's grocery store, by the short cut, when Scarbaby decided to pick mirlitons off the mirliton vine in the yard by the Lombarde house, which used to be a plantation
  • * 2011 , David Hanson, Edwin Marty, Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival (page 48)
    • In New Orleans, for example, the mirliton (chayote) tree has grown for centuries
  • (music) The eunuch flute, a kind of membranophone.
  • * 1975 , Sibyl Marcuse, A survey of musical instruments (page 172)
    • In form the mirlitons resembled flutes, shawms, or other instruments, and were generally furnished with a parchment membrane.
  • * 1990 , Francis Bebey, African music: a people's art (page 64)
    • Whistles, mirlitons , flutes, trumpets or horns, clarinets, and oboes are all played in one or more parts of the continent.
  • * 1996 , Bart Hopkin, Musical Instrument Design (page 145)
    • The bars have air resonators below, and mirliton membranes are set over holes in the resonators (see Figure 10-3C).
  • An 18th-century hussar hat resembling a slightly conical shako or tall fez.
  • * 1985 , Emir Bukhari, Napoleon's Line Chasseurs (page 33)
    • Headwear : This was either the colpack or the mirliton . Regiments No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 wore the former; 5, 6, 7 and 8 the latter.
  • * 2011 , John-Paul Sinclair Lewis, The Tricolor and the Scimitar (page 303):
    • Hélie also raised his mirliton in solidarity, but after the initial hooray and bravado, he felt a deep sense of dread.
  • * 2012 , Philip Haythornthwaite Frederick the Great's Army, volume 1: Cavalry (page 20)
    • The headdress was a fur busby for the 1st-4th Regts., and a felt mirliton or Flügelmütze for the remainder (also worn by the 4th, 1752-71).
  • A tartlet or biscuit garnished with almond, first produced in Rouen around 1800. Mirlitons de Rouen] 2006[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirlitons_de_Rouen Mirlitons de Rouen
  • * 1827 , Antoine B. Beauvilliers, The art of French cookery
    • Have moulds prepared as for the mirlitons of Rouen; fill them and finish in the same manner.
  • * 1874 , Jules Gouffé, The Royal Book of Pastry and Confectionery (page 291)
    • ALMOND PASTE MIRLITONS WITH CHOCOLATE CREAM
  • * 2012 , Cooking with the World's Best (Murdoch Books Pty Limited)
    • To make the mirliton , in a bowl, break the eggs, add both the sugars, the double cream, almond meal, lemon zest and melted butter.

    See also

    * Wikipedia French entry * Wikipedia Dutch entry

    References