truffle

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As truffles cannot be planted, careful search alone can obtain it At the time I write (1825) the glory of the truffle is at its apogee.

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  1. noun Any of various fleshy, ascomycetous, edible fungi, chiefly of the genus Tuber, that grow underground on or near the roots of trees and are valued as a delicacy.
  2. noun Any of various chocolate confections, especially one made of a mixture including chopped nuts, rolled into balls and covered with cocoa powder.

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  • I had the Mango Jalapeno truffle which the spiciness did come through. —  BC Bloggers
  • Miss: The first bite of a wasabi chocolate truffle was an odd surprise.
  • The only one we didn't like was the "Perigord," which suffused the room with a truffle-oil stink that had patrons around me reaching for their hankies. —  Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
  • Menu items include escargot, a homemade ravioli in a white-truffle foam and chocolate-drenched profiteroles for dessert.
  • From a second-story window now blurry with raindrops, I can barely see three sets of tracks, two dainty, one, dog-pawed, that lead out to the truffle orchard two fields away. —  French Word-A-Day
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  1. Alteration of French trufe, from Old French, from Old Provençal trufa, from Vulgar Latin *tūfera, truffles, from dialectal variant of Latin tūber, lump; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also trufle; = Dutch truffel = German trüffel = Swedish tryffel = Danish tröffel, from Old French trufle, with unorig. l, for trufe, truffe, French truffe = Provencal trufa = Spanish trufa, truffle; prob. from Latin tubera, neuter plural (taken later as feminine singular) of tuber, an esculent root, a tuber: see tuber. Cf. French tartoufle, from Old Italian tartuffola, tartoffalo (Milanese tartuffol, Venetian tartufola), truffle (later G. tartuffel, kartoffel, potato), also tartuffo, tartufo, truffle; prob. from Latin terræ tubera, ‘earth-tubers’: tcrræ, genitive of terra, earth; tuber, tuber. Cf. trifle.
 

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