noisette
8.2
An edible nut that grows on the hazel tree
- noun
- /nɔɪˈzɛt/
:
avellana
- She topped the salad with roasted noisette to give it a nutty crunch.
Examples
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You've got to taste the noisette, nocciola.
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Lecter stirs at his beurre noisette.
Fiction book (2001) -
The chef sprinkled crushed noisette over the dessert for added flavor.
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In the recipe, use finely chopped noisette to enhance the chocolate cake.
Synonyms
hazelnut
vsnoisette
25
1.0
A small round nut or the tree that makes it, often used in sweets and coffee
emphasizes its use in cooking and baking rather than botanical naming
filbert
vsnoisette
1
6.7
A small hazel tree or the round brown nuts it gives that you can eat
highlights common cooking and baking use rather than botanical sense
1
8.9
The edible nut from a hazel tree
is used mainly in cooking and baking rather than for specific botanical varieties
Compounds
beurre noisette
- Specialized
9.9
Butter cooked until light brown that has a nutty taste and is used as a sauce
Surface Forms
Etymology
Noisette is a French word that means 'hazelnut', literally a 'little nut', so a noisette is simply the hazelnut you can eat.