crapaudine (English, noun)
expansion: crapaudine (countable and uncountable, plural crapaudines)
Senses:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
glosses: A toadstone.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
tags: countable
uncountable
glosses: The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
tags: countable
rare
uncountable
Forms:
form: crapaudines
tags: plural