reinette

• rennet

Borrowed from French reinette.

reinette (plural reinettes)

1. Any of various kinds of apple, mostly of French origin, characterized by russeting.

   Synonyms: rennet, renneting

   Coordinate term: pippin

   • 1865, Georgiana Hill, How to Cook Apples: Shown in a Hundred Different Ways of Dressing that Fruit, page 48:

     Make choice of some small reinette apples, pare them, and prick them thoroughly with a coarse needle to render them as absorbent as possible; put them into a jar to stand inside a saucepan of boiling water, […]

   • 2011, Michael Bond, Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines, Allison & Busby, →ISBN:

     Then a flameproof casserole dish–preferably the flat type peculiar to Normandy–should be lined with sliced apple and onion. Reinette apples are supposed to be the best.

• “reinette”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• reinette on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• rainette

From Old French raine (“frog”) +‎ -ette; influenced by reine (“queen”).

• IPA^(key): /ʁɛ.nɛt/ ~ /ʁe.nɛt/

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reinette f (plural reinettes)

1. reinette (group of apple cultivars)

• → English: reinette, rennet
• → German: Renette
• → Italian: renetta
• → Polish: reneta
• → Portuguese: reineta, raineta
• → Spanish: reineta

• “reinette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.