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  • I believe French cafes and modest restaurants and delis would use it to slice up "celeri" for "celeri remoulade" and potato slices for "pommes souffles", also for french fries and curly vegetables.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Once at a French supermarche, I asked the store clerk if the celeri remoulade was "frais" (fresh) and without "preservatifs" (I thought it meant preservatives).

    arrosoir - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Once at a French supermarche, I asked the store clerk if the celeri remoulade was "frais" (fresh) and without "preservatifs" (I thought it meant preservatives).

    arrosoir - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Funny, I don't like cole slaw either tastes like certain farts but I adore celeri remoulade.

    A la Biche au Bois Etienne 2006

  • Looking forward to reading and cooking through your site--anyone with a good chocolate-guinness cake recipe is a friend of mine! as for celeriac, the classic recipe is celeri remoulade--julienned celeriac mixed with a very mustardy mayonnaise and capers.

    drooling and mashing esther 2005

  • = The verb is extremely rare in the sense 'taste, sample'; this is the only instance of the meaning found in poetry, although a transferred use is found at Lucretius II 191-92 'ignes ... celeri flamma

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • ORBE = probably means 'wheel'; compare Tib I v 70 'uersatur celeri

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Maeoniumque bibat felici pectore fontem. mox et Socratico plenus grege mittat habenas liber et ingentis quatiat Demosthenis arma. hinc Romana manus circumfluat et modo Graio exonerata sono mutet suffusa saporem. interdum subducta foro det pagina cursum et cortina [314] sonet celeri distincta meatu; dein [315] epulas et bella truci memorata canore grandiaque indomiti Ciceronis verba minetur. his animum succinge bonis: sic flumine largo plenus Pierio defundes pectore verba.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Nemo confidat nimium secundis, 20 nemo desperet meliora lassis: miscet haec illis prohibensque Clotho stare Fortunam rotat omne fatum. nemo tam diuos habuit fauentis crastinum ut posset sibi polliceri: 25 res deus nostras celeri citatas

    Mutability 1912

  • The Kaiser's call goes well to the words fitted to it by the Berliners, "celeri salade" (celery salad) and has quite a cheerful sound.

    Face to Face with Kaiserism 1909

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