Definitions
Etymologies
- From French muscadet (Wiktionary)
Examples
“One person drinking a glass of chilled muscadet is not the same as a group downing tins of stella.”
“Go for the galette soubise (onions cooked in muscadet) and crêpe pomme maison flambée au calvados – your palate (and wallet) will be forever grateful.”
“Many of the pairings reaffirm the classics such as oysters with muscadet and sauternes with foie gras, so score one for intuition.”
“Something like the muscadet I went with may work with your spicy squid the way it went with our spiced oyster dish.”
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“Hi Dr. I would go for a muscadet with some goat cheese on the side!”
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“Because Julianne knew that Claire preferred white wine, she went straight to the refrigerator, where she found two bottles of a New Zealand sauvignon blanc and a muscadet.”
“So for the rest, I *shlouped* them down naked and chased them with the muscadet.”
“Filet of escolar was steamed with garlic oil and set afloat on a wonderful panaché of wild mushrooms in champagne vinegar, olive oil and muscadet, with a discreet spoonful of soy sauce to give it an edge.”
“There were potted shrimps, lamb cutlets with potato straws and mouthwatering salad and by way of afters orange ice cream with Courvoisier, all these helped along very nicely with a muscadet and rounded off with coffee served in paper-thin china cups and poured from a massive silver coffeepot.”
“Bottles range from $27 for an organic muscadet to $3,150 for a 1. 5-liter Barolo; glasses from $7 to $22.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘muscadet’.
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Grapes
sour grapes, grape, grapes, raisin, Nehi grape soda, Petit Verdot, Concord, Pinot Meunier, scuppernong, muscadine, Catawba, seedless and 112 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Tulip Names I
No rhyme or reason other than that I like the names. :-) For more flower fun, see these lists:
Rose words by mollusque
Rose varieties by mollusque
Tulip Names II: You Know ...abbey dream, abbey road, abodement, abra, abra elite, academician tstisin, acapulco, ace of diamonds, acropolis, ad hoc, adamo, addis and 597 more...
Tweets
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chained_bear "Blaine's favourite plain boiled lobster, with a glass of muscadet; sweetbreads and asparagus, with a charming little claret; and a strawberry tart."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 118 Feb 29, 2008