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Terms in French 5811-5820 of 10943

Eiffel Tower

[French]

A nickname for Puligny-Saint-Pierre, a cone-shaped, soft, fine-textured, moist goat’s milk cheese with a rind of natural mould and a complex flavour. It may have a coating of charcoal. (AOC).

elan

[French]

Elk (US: moose). The largest existing animal of the deer kind, inhabiting large portions of Northern Europe and of North America. The American variety is also called the moose.

eledone

[French] plural eledones

Small, pale-coloured octopus with curled tentacles which is boiled and served whole, perhaps with oil and vinegar.

éleusine

[French]

Finger millet. After rice and wheat, finger millet, with pearl millet, is the most important grain crop of India. It is used to make flour. Finger millet is often intercropped with legumes such as peanuts (Arachis hypogea), cowpeas (Vigna sinensis), and pigeon peas (Cajanus cajan), or other plants such as Niger seeds (Guizotia abyssinica).

embeurré/embeurrée

[French] plural embeurrés/embeurrée

Buttered

embeurrée de chou

[French]

A dish from Poitou of white cabbage boiled, crushed and served with melted butter.

emincé/emincée

[French] plural emincés/emincée

Thinly sliced. It often refers to thin slices of cooked meat or poultry, cooled, reheated and served with sauce.

emissole

[French]

Smooth hound. A type of dogfish, a large, long, thin marine fish with brown skin and very prominent fins, usually eaten as steaks. The fish should be skinned before it is cooked.

Emmental de Savoie

[French]

A cheese. (AOC).

Emmental Français Est-Central

[French]

A cheese. (AOC).