Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A kind of ragout of meat and vegetables.
  • noun The kidney-bean or French bean.
  • noun In ceramics, a red used for the whole surface of a piece, or forming a background to other decoration. It is produced from an oxid of copper.
  • To prepare as, or convert into, a haricot: as, to haricot a neck of mutton.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A ragout or stew of meat with beans and other vegetables.
  • noun The ripe seeds, or the unripe pod, of the common string bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), used as a vegetable. Other species of the same genus furnish different kinds of haricots.

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  • noun A common bean.
  • noun A stew of lamb and vegetables.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans
  • noun a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried

Etymologies

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Probably ultimately from Nahuatl ayecotli, with the spelling influenced by haricot ("stew").

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French, possibly from Old French harigoter ("to tear up").

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Examples

  • The word haricot was unknown in France until the seventeenth century: people used the word

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • "It is my discovery of the etymology of the word haricot!"

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • The green bean was generally referred to as the haricot; the mature bean, dried and divested of its pod, was called the fêverole.59 The latter seems to have been less used in polite society, perhaps because of its windy nature, but its resemblance to the fava bean was close enough to guide cooks in preparing it.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • The green bean was generally referred to as the haricot; the mature bean, dried and divested of its pod, was called the fêverole.59 The latter seems to have been less used in polite society, perhaps because of its windy nature, but its resemblance to the fava bean was close enough to guide cooks in preparing it.

    Savoring The Past Wheaton Barbara Ketcham 1983

  • This astonishing immunity can have only one explanation: like the potato and the maize-plant, the haricot is a gift of the New World.

    Social Life in the Insect World Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

  • The haulm is both of little bulk and little use, but the seed is used in making the esteemed French dish called haricot, with which it were well if the working classes of this country were acquainted.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • The haulm is both of little bulk and little use, but the seed is used in making the esteemed French dish called haricot, with which it were well if the working classes of this country were acquainted.

    The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

  • In that case I would swap the butter beans for a smaller pulse, such as haricot beans.

    Nigel Slater's butter-bean tomatoes, baked pears with maple syrup and cinnamon cream recipes Nigel Slater 2010

  • A bag of beans, of the variety known as "haricot," is the next candidate.

    A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902

  • -- A very pretty dish can be made by making a border of mashed potatoes, hollow in the centre, in which can be placed various kinds of other vegetables, such as haricot beans, stewed peas, &c.

    Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867

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