langouste

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The coarse rose-coloured granite of this coast resembles the Egyptian We rowed back to the little inn at Ploumanach, and had some eggs and a hot langouste or rock-lobster.

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  1. noun See spiny lobster.

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  • The coarse rose-coloured granite of this coast resembles the Egyptian We rowed back to the little inn at Ploumanach, and had some eggs and a hot langouste or rock-lobster. —  Brittany ; Its Byways
  • He ate a small portion of langouste with an exquisite salad, and drank a single glass of chablis. —  Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
  • We rowed back to the little inn at Ploumanach, and had some eggs and a hot langouste or rock-lobster. —  Brittany & Its Byways
  • It was curious to see the dread shown by the common lobster to the langouste. —  Brittany & Its Byways
  • Better still are scampi, a kind of small crawfish, rather like tenderer and sweeter langouste. —  A Wanderer in Venice
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  1. French, from Old French, from Old Provençal langosta, from Vulgar Latin *lacusta, from Latin locusta, lobster, locust.
 

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