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- noun Plural form of
aiguillette .
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Examples
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Michaela and I each filled four, with an additional one devoted to aiguillettes strips of back meat rolled with excess foie chunks like pigs in a blanket.
The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009
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Michaela and I each filled four, with an additional one devoted to aiguillettes strips of back meat rolled with excess foie chunks like pigs in a blanket.
The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009
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Aside from deveining and cutting away the trouble spots, Gilles and Danie were deeming which livers were worthy of being preserved wholethe equivalent of grade Aand which should be used for pt, aiguillettes, galantine or magret slices wrapped around foie gras.
The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009
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Aside from deveining and cutting away the trouble spots, Gilles and Danie were deeming which livers were worthy of being preserved wholethe equivalent of grade Aand which should be used for pt, aiguillettes, galantine or magret slices wrapped around foie gras.
The Foie Gras Wars Mark Caro 2009
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I started with la salade de cèpes à l'ail aux aiguillettes de pintadeau tièdes.
l'Ami Schutz Etienne 2007
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I started with la salade de cèpes à l'ail aux aiguillettes de pintadeau tièdes.
Archive 2007-01-01 Etienne 2007
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Commander-inchief of all these busbys, pelisses, and aiguillettes, which so fascinated the fair sex.
Domestic Peace 2007
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The mute glittering ranks of veterans were full of bright contrasting colors, thanks to their different uniforms, weapons, accoutrements, and aiguillettes; and the whole great picture, that miniature battlefield before the combat, was framed by the majestic towering walls of the Tuileries, which officers and men seemed to rival in their immobility.
A Woman of Thirty 2007
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Commander-inchief of all these busbys, pelisses, and aiguillettes, which so fascinated the fair sex.
Domestic Peace 2007
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"What they are doing, " a dragoon Major resplendent in aiguillettes and gold braid remarked, -is shooting at our sentries with six-pound shots.
Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003
chained_bear commented on the word aiguillettes
"'If a duck lack unction, it forfeits all rights to the name,' said Stephen. 'Yet here are some aiguillettes—what is the English for aiguillettes?—from the creature's inner flank that will go down well enough...'"
—P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 160
March 17, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word aiguillettes
A brief Internet search reveals the definition as "thin strips of meat or flesh," but then I also found this, and this, which I really hope are not considered meat or fish.
Edit: aiguillettes are the corded loops on some military uniforms. Who knew? (Not I.) Usage:
"The most obvious difference, however, was that officers wore their gold aiguillettes on the right shoulder, and thus buttoned the kurtka across from left to right." (Ronald Pawly, Patrice Courcelle, Napoleon's Red Lancers, Osprey, 2003, p. 11)
October 13, 2008
reesetee commented on the word aiguillettes
You did! See aiguillette. :-)
October 14, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word aiguillettes
Not as tasty as andouillettes.
October 14, 2008
john commented on the word aiguillettes
“Legionnaires with aiguillettes, or braids, dangling from their starched uniforms pack bar stools next to scantily clad women from Brazilian cities like Macapá and Belém.�?
The New York Times, Training Legionnaires to Fight (and Eat Rodents), by Simon Romero, November 30, 2008
December 1, 2008