Wiktionary
a. flavour with hot spices. n. An unglazed earthenware casserole dish.
Usage examples of "diable".
On me disait depuis quelques jours: La Falourdel, ne filez pas trop votre rouet le soir, le diable aime peigner avec ses cornes la quenouille des vieilles femmes.
Leurs innombrables sculptures de diables et de dragons prenaient un aspect lugubre.
Burton echoed, thinking longingly of hollandaise sauce and poulet a la diable.
On me disait depuis quelques jours: La Falourdel, ne filez pas trop votre rouet le soir, le diable aime peigner avec ses cornes la quenouille des vieilles femmes.
Voltaire, has been wrong in accusing me of having criticized that tragedy, and in attributing to me an epigram, the author of which has never been known, and which ends with two very poor lines: "Pour avoir fait pis qu'Esther, Comment diable as-to pu faire" I have been told that M.
La beaute du diable, no doubt, to Anglo-Saxon eyes, with that skin of incomparable texture and whiteness relieved by a heavily coiled crown of living bronze, the crimson insolence of that matchless mouth, those luminous and changeable eyes so like the sea, whose green melted into blue with the swiftness of thought, whose blue at times as swiftly shaded into stormy purple-black: but however bizarre and barbaric, beauty none the less, and under the most meticulous examination indisputable.
The French call the root Navet du Diable (Devil's Turnip), from its violent and dangerous action.
The title of the work was Le Diable au Corps, a most erotic and sensual book, which seemed so to excite her that she sighed and swayed herself about whilst one hand was quite lost under her clothes, and seemed to the Sultan to be very curiously engaged somewhere.