Definitions
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- noun The
spiny lobster
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large edible marine crustacean having a spiny carapace but lacking the large pincers of true lobsters
- noun warm-water lobsters without claws; those from Australia and South Africa usually marketed as frozen tails; caught also in Florida and California
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her husband, like most French people, was sadly deficient in holiday spirit, and limited his revels to the consumption of oysters and langouste in a restaurant, in the company of his mistress.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Astrid was clearly making an effort to look cheerful, but I could tell she was distraught, and even I felt a little guilty at the thought of poor Łukasz, who had been nice to me, languishing in some Communist jail cell while we feasted on langouste and oysters.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Her husband, like most French people, was sadly deficient in holiday spirit, and limited his revels to the consumption of oysters and langouste in a restaurant, in the company of his mistress.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Astrid was clearly making an effort to look cheerful, but I could tell she was distraught, and even I felt a little guilty at the thought of poor Łukasz, who had been nice to me, languishing in some Communist jail cell while we feasted on langouste and oysters.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Her husband, like most French people, was sadly deficient in holiday spirit, and limited his revels to the consumption of oysters and langouste in a restaurant, in the company of his mistress.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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Astrid was clearly making an effort to look cheerful, but I could tell she was distraught, and even I felt a little guilty at the thought of poor Łukasz, who had been nice to me, languishing in some Communist jail cell while we feasted on langouste and oysters.
Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009
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We rowed back to the little inn at Ploumanach, and had some eggs and a hot langouste or rock-lobster.
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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The descriptions of the lobster and the langouste are particularly minute, and the comparison or contrast between the two is drawn with elaborate precision.
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Provence_ and _langouste_ and Chabas's famous straw potatoes and rum omelette for ten days, and were sorry when it was all over.
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It was curious to see the dread shown by the common lobster to the langouste.
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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