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frangipani
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frangipani \Fran`gi*pan"i\, Frangipanni \Fran`gi*pan"ni\, n. A perfume derived from, or imitating the odor of, the flower of the red jasmine, a West Indian tree of the genus Plumeria.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
common name of a type of flowering shrub from the West Indies, also fdrangipane, 1670s, for a perfume that had its odor, from French frangipane (16c.), said to be from Frangipani, the family name of the Italian inventor.\n\nFRANGIPANI, an illustrious and powerful Roman House, which traces its origin to the 7th c., and attained the summit of its glory in the 11th and 12th centuries. ... The origin of the name Frangipani is attributed to the family's benevolent distribution of bread in time of famine.
["Chambers's Encyclopædia," 1868]
\nFrangipane as a type of pastry is from 1858.Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of several tropical American trees, of the genus ''Plumeria'', having showy, funnel-shaped flowers 2 A perfume originally obtained from these flowers
WordNet
n. any of various tropical American deciduous shrubs or trees of the genus Plumeria having milky sap and showy fragrant funnel-shaped variously colored flowers [syn: frangipanni]
Wikipedia
Frangipani, also spelled Frangipane (‘e’) may refer to:
- Plumeria, a flowering shrub often known as frangipani
- Plumeria (Lao Royal Residence), former Laos royal residence
- Frangipani family, an Italian family that came to prominence in the Middle Ages
- Frangipani, a 2013 film directed by Visakesa Chandrasekaram
- Cencio I Frangipane (1066?-1102?)
- Cencio II Frangipane (early twelfth century), Catholic cardinal
- Oddone Frangipane (mid-twelfth century), military leader
- William Frangipani (died 1337), Latin Archbishop of Patras
- A Varanda do Frangipani (Under the Frangipani), 1996 novel by Mozambican writer Mia Couto
- Frangipani (novel), the second novel by Tahitian writer Célestine Hitiura Vaite (b. 1966)
- Frangipani (file system), a scalable distributed file system
- Frangipane, an almond pastry filling
- Halsey (singer), birth name Ashley Nicolette Frangipane
- Niccolò Frangipane, 16th-century Italian painter active in Padua and Rimini
Frangipani (Sinhala: සය පෙති කුසුම Saya Pethi Kusuma) is a 2013 Sri Lankan film directed by Visakesa Chandrasekaram and starring Dasun Pathirana, Jehan Sri Kanth, and Yasodha Rasanduni. It was screened at numerous international film festivals including the Mumbai Queer Film Festival, but has only been shown in two venues in Sri Lanka, where homosexuality is illegal.
The film is Chandrasekaram's feature-length debut. He said in an interview with Fridae that "The film is typical in many ways of the experience of LGBT in Sri Lanka, typical of the experience that I myself had.”
Usage examples of "frangipani".
Three indigenous fig trees dwarfed the buildings, crimson frangipani burst like fireworks against the green kikuyu grass, beds of bright barber ton daisies ringed the gentle terraces that fell away to the stream, and a bougainvillaea creeper smothered the main building in a profusion of dark green and purple.
The air was fragrant with honeysuckle and frangipani, and the little coqui chirruped in time with accordion music wafting from a gypsy band playing outside the theater.
But at home, we had our own names for what was all around us- frangipani, jacaranda, mango and gula-gula, kikuyu, hadedah, shongololo.
She relaxed into the sweet odors of plumeria and frangipani, both lush now in her garden.
It was exactly how she had imagined it, with its decorative timberwork, leadlight windows and huge frangipani standing guard at the front, their waxy sweet-smelling creamy flowers perfuming the evening air.
The bar was crowded with humans and exotics, and Marc and Anne were squeezed in between a tall Gi daintily sipping a cocktail of frangipani nectar and a stout little Poltroyan chugalugging a stein of creme de menthe.
There was an altar, very low, with frangipani flowers, scented like confectionary, and something killed that had been picked clean.
Apprehensive for their safety, but still more apprehensive of the danger of a refusal, the princes and barons returned to their houses at Rome in the garb of simple and peaceful citizens: the Colonna and Ursini, the Savelli and Frangipani, were confounded before the tribunal of a plebeian, of the vile buffoon whom they had so often derided, and their disgrace was aggravated by the indignation which they vainly struggled to disguise.
He sipped a gin-and-tonic from a nineteenth-century Baccarat glass and surveyed the expanse of azure Caribbean sea that lay beyond a profusion of brilliant iced frangipani.
The city of Arjunanda lay two thousand feet below by the waters, turned to a model by distance: buildings white and blue and violet with marble and tile, avenues bordered with jacaranda and colonnades roofed in climbing rose and frangipani.
Yorn and his men maintained and continually refreshed a collection of exotic palm trees, tulip trees, frangipanis, mimosas, many species of ferns, spaths, smithianthas, orchids, and a shitload of other plants that Fric was not able to identify.
From the villa's steeply terraced gardens below, the drowsy summer scents of frangipani and night jasmine perfumed the warm, dark air.
The humidity was uncommonly low for the Keys, and thanks in part to the protection of the thick flame-red canopy of poinciana that arched over the compound, we were just hot enough that the gentle steady breezes were welcome as much for their coolness as for the cycling symphony of pleasing scents they carried: sea salt, frangipani, fried conch fritters, Erin's rose garden, iodine, coral dust, lime, sunblock, five different kinds of coffee, the indescribable but distinctive bouquet of a Cuban sandwich being pressed somewhere upwind, excellent marijuana in a wooden pipe, and just a soupcon of distant moped exhaust.