Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An efflorescence on vanilla-pods. See the extract.

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Examples

  • The pods of the best varieties are, strangely enough, chocolate-colored, and are flecked with a crystalline substance called givre, or vanillin, a fragrant chemical secreted by the pod lining that gives vanilla its characteristic flavor.

    unknown title 2009

  • The country looked beautiful in the bright winter sunshine, the distant forest always in a blue mist, the trees with their branches white with "givre" (hoarfrost), and patches of snow and ice all over the fields.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • Le velux n'etant pas la seul ouverture de la maison congelé et bloqué par la neige et le givre et tout ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Dans un square écarté, morne et couverte de givre, Où se cache un hôtel, aux vieux lions de cuivre; and the hero of the tale, a young French poet, who is in London, is truly unhappy in that village.

    The Paris Sketch Book 2006

  • Songez-vous qu'il est la, sous le givre et la neige,

    George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings 1910

  • Songez-vous qu'il est là, sous le givre et la neige,

    George Sand; Some Aspects of her Life and Writings 1910

  • Songez-vous qu'il est la, sous le givre et la neige,

    George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Ren�� Doumic 1898

  • Could not connect to givre. cabspace.com: 80 (65.175.85.100), connection timed out

    Comments for ArsGeek Blogs 2010

  • Could not connect to givre. cabspace.com: 80 (65.175.85.100), connection timed out

    Comments for ArsGeek Blogs 2010

  • Could not connect to givre. cabspace.com: 80 (65.175.85.100), connection timed out

    Comments for ArsGeek 2010

  • Since it opened in 2011, the New York restaurant Boulud Sud has served its legendary grapefruit givré, a hollowed and frozen grapefruit shell filled with grapefruit sorbet and segments, citrus marmalade, and rose loukoum, all topped with sesame foam and halvah candy floss.

    Citrus Paradisi | Isobel Wohl 2022

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