Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In farriery, an ulcer on the coronet of a horse's hoof.
- In architecture, turning on pivots at the top and bottom: said of doors.
Wiktionary
- n. rare The socket in which the pivot of a door turns
- n. obsolete An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Arch.) Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.
- n. (Far.) An ulcer on the coronet of a horse.
Etymologies
- French (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Win ordered the Poulet rôti en crapaudine for his entree, which was chicken stuffed under the skin with a panade of butter, tarragon, garlic, onion, and cognac.”
“I told you the Chinese tie their captives as tightly as possible, so that eventually the hands and feet burst and mortify; some of our people had been bound for weeks, a few au crapaudine (hands and feet in the small of the back), some hung up, some with heavy chains; many had had their bonds soaked to make them tighter, others had been flogged.”
“Russe '; the' poucettes ', the' crapaudine 'on neck and ankles and wrists; all, all as bad as the' Pater Noster 'of the Inquisition, as Mayer said the other day in the face of Charpentier, the Commandant of the penitentiary.”
“Scarce had we stood looking on it a minute, before down dashed three or four dirty boys, as copper-coloured as the natives of Bengal; who by splashing us all over, and swimming about a la crapaudine, convinced us that it was not their fault, if we would not have companions in the delights of bathing.”
“This is a French dish called Pigeons aux petits pois; and the following is another, which is called Pigeons à la crapaudine.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“But the most curious of all these superstitious beliefs attached itself to the _crapaudine_, or toad-stone.”
“Of course, I picked out a crispy-skinned poulet crapaudine”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘crapaudine’.
-
Farriery
"The art of shoeing horses; also, the art of treating the diseases of horses, now technically called veterinary surgery."
--Century Dictionaryfarriery, crapaudine, grease, interference, cloy, buttress, grape, grapes, farrier, horseshoe, fullering, calk and 27 more...
-
May or May Not Be Specific, But It's ...
This list will contain all non-excremental references to poo. See its ancestor list, Specific Excrement, which has generated no small amount of conversation (heated and otherwise) since its incepti...
fernando poo, a pooping sea, poop deck, clinchpoop, pimiento load, crappie, very reverend con..., pookimo, pootalian, kickapoo, skypoo, swheat-n-poo and 72 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for crapaudine.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.