lemon meringue pie
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- noun
- /ˈlɛmən mɪˈræŋ paɪ/
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tarta de limón con merengue
- For our family gathering, I decided to bring a delicious lemon meringue pie.
- lemon meringue pie for dessert
- baked lemon meringue pie
- get some lemon meringue pie
Examples
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Friends and family alike adore her spaghetti sauce, as well as her lemon meringue pies.
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How much is that lemon meringue pie?
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I can make you a nice lemon meringue pie.
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Oh, do you like lemon meringue pie?
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I'm really, really excited to make some lemon meringue pie with one.
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I'll have some pie-- some of that lemon meringue pie.
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When's the last time you ate lemon meringue pie?
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Lemon meringue pie, fresh and jelled in its dish.
Fiction book (1996) -
Buster always offered me a Hires root beer and lemon meringue pie, and I always said no thank you, even though lemon meringue pie, ice cold, was one of my favorite things on earth.
Fiction book (1993) -
Can I get a piece of lemon meringue pie for dessert?
How Lemon-Flavored
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: a pie (pastry) that involves lemon flavoring and meringue (beaten egg‑white) components, so a learner who knows 'lemon', 'meringue', and 'pie' can readily infer the dish. Food noun‑noun combinations of this sort are common cross‑linguistically and follow normal modifier + head patterns, making the expression transparent.
Etymology
Lemon meringue pie gives a simple picture: a baked pie with a tart, thick lemon filling and a light, sweet meringue on top. So, the name tells you it's the dessert with a tart lemon layer under a fluffy sweet top.