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  • adjective of a moderate yellow-green color that is greener and deeper than moss green and yellower and darker than pea green

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Examples

  • I particularly liked my entrée, which was a sort of soupe/crème de cresson -- fab!

    Restaurant Chez Marie Etienne 2007

  • I think this are good with some bitter leaves like cresson alienois.

    foodbeam » Happy birthday Aida 2005

  • I think this are good with some bitter leaves like cresson alienois.

    foodbeam » 2005 » October 2005

  • The Fr. _cresson_, from It. _crescione_, which Mr. Wedgwood cites, points in the direction of

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • "Omelette aux fines herbes, et poulet roti aux cresson -- oui, monsieur."

    Sally Bishop A Romance 1906

  • _ The French translators give _cresson sauvage_, wild cress, as the equivalent.

    The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 Various 1884

  • Le cresson boit; l'eau court; les frênes sur les pentes,

    Laudator Temporis Acti Michael Gilleland 2010

  • Chuck Felton, who lives in Lakehills, Texas, has been researching the history and stories of Cresson Sanatorium, which he has compiled into a mc-tb-cresson-chuck-felton-yv-0712-20100712

    Columnist: Stephen Miller 2010

  • _chapon roti au cresson_; _asperge au branches_; _glace au chocolat_; _caf‚_; or: _potage au Cr‚cy_; _turbot aux cƒpres_;

    Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

  • Advocate's Box, and before the Queen upon the seat of justice, with all her ladies round her, he pleaded several important causes both for the prosecution and for the defence, "et faisait rage d'alleguer loix, chapitres, et decisions, et luy croissoit le latin en la bouche comme le cresson à la guelle d'un four," the whole being a satire on the well-known Norman passion for a lawsuit, which was appreciated as much by the good people of Rouen as by their royal visitors.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

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