sanguette
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "‘Now what was it?’ asked the American. ‘I’m sure the little lady wants to know.’ / ‘It’s a sanguette, a blood pancake[.] […] It’s only chicken blood. You take onions and fry them,’ he said to the room, ‘and breadcrumbs and chopped parsley and slowly the blood of a chicken. It makes a pancake.[…]’"
- "Banzo’s pissaladière of muge (a local, Mediterranean fish) is a straightforward masterpiece of zesty, southern French gastronomy. So are his red mullet with wild lettuce and his toothsome sanguette of squab (incredibly juicy fowl!)."
- "“It is . . . a tad macabre, don’t you think?” “Not at all. Think of blood sausage. Think of civet of hare. Think of sanguette.” “Yes, but human blood. Your own blood.”"
- "In France, they have Sanguette, a speciality from the Languedoc which was very common when chickens were killed at home. […] The pan is deglazed with a little vinegar and the resulting sauce poured over the sanguette. A very different version of sanguette is made in the Béarn. The Béarnais prepare theirs with the boiled cheeks, tripe and spleen of calf."
- "Sanguette used to be widely available in France, specifically in what was Occitania, i.e. roughly the southernmost third of the country. Today, because stringent laws govern the slaughter of animals, it is only to be found under the counter in country markets."
Etymology
From French sanguette, from Occitan sanqueta.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: sanguette, sanqueta