langue
- noun
- /læŋɡ/
:
lengua
- The restaurant serves grilled beef langue as a delicacy on its menu.
Examples
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In French cuisine, langue is often braised and served with rich sauces.
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Chef Maria prepared a savory dish with langue that delighted her guests.
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We have it palpably in our mouths; it is our langue, our tongue.
Academic text (1997) -
And moving on, our favorite Honduran sauce maker is back in the Four Spot Baby Chili Langue de Fuego.
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To become a full-fledged knight, called a Knight of Justice or Cavaliere di Giustizia, required proving noble ancestry as far back as sixteen quarters (four generations), depending on the langue.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
1
3.4
A cow's tongue that is cooked and eaten as meat
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9.9
A part made of muscle in the mouth of animals or humans that helps you taste and speak
A cooked tongue from a young cow that is eaten as food
A soft muscle in the mouth that can move and helps you taste and speak
Compounds
- Specialized
A group of old French dialects spoken in northern and central France in the Middle Ages
- Specialized
A group of old French dialects spoken in northern and central France that used 'oïl' for yes
- Literature
A group of old French dialects once spoken in southern France that use oc for yes
Surface Forms
Etymology
Langue comes from the French and Latin lingua, which means 'tongue'. As a food word, langue simply means the tongue of an animal that people eat, like Spanish 'lengua' tacos, so the origin is literally the same 'tongue'.