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Haricot

noun

A French variety of green bean plant bearing light-colored beans.

A French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried. Synonym: flageolet.

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haricot vert

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"Haricot" Quotes from Famous Books

... said that the horses which run against those thus baited, fall back the moment they smell the offensive odour. If a leg of mutton, before being roasted, has a small clove of Garlic inserted into the knuckle, and the joint is afterwards served with haricot beans (soaked for twenty-four hours before being boiled), it is rendered doubly delicious. In Greece snails dressed with Garlic are now ...

— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... meats minced with spices). There was a soup also, of a reddish tinge, from being coloured with saffron, and sausages rather too strong of garlic, and very white bread, and two dishes of vegetables, one of which was of garbanzos, a sort of haricot beans. There was wine also, and brandy; indeed, the inhabitants must have managed cleverly to hide their stores from their invaders to enable them to produce so good a supply. Job and Bob did not conceal their astonishment; ...

— Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships - A Story of the Last Naval War • W.H.G. Kingston

Words linked to "Haricot" : green bean, common bean, haricot vert