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bi·ga·rade
[big-uh-reyd, bee-guh-rahd; Fr. bee-ga-rad] noun, plural bi·ga·rades [-reydz, -rahdz; Fr. -rad] . noun
1.
a Seville or bitter orange.
adjective
2.
French Cookery. (of a sauce) prepared with bitter oranges: duck bigarade.
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Bigarade
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Origin:
1695–1705; < French: bitter orange < Provençal bigarrado, derivative of bigarrar to variegate; see bigarreau
1695–1705; < French: bitter orange < Provençal bigarrado, derivative of bigarrar to variegate; see bigarreau
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| bigarade | |
noun | |
| any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stock [syn: sour orange] |
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