Find the word definition

Crossword clues for lyonnaise

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lyonnaise

Lyonnaise \Ly`on`naise"\, a. [F. lyonnaise, fem. of lyonnais of Lyons.] (Cookery) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley.

Wiktionary
lyonnaise

a. 1 Of or from Lyons 2 cook with onions, especially caramelized onions. 3 Prepared in a style typical to Lyons.

WordNet
lyonnaise

adj. cooked with onions

Wikipedia
Lyonnaise

Lyonnaise may refer to:

  • A person, or, "in the style of (something)", from Lyon, France (also: Lyonnais).
  • An adjective, meaning "cooked with onions" or "with caramelized onions", as in "potatoes lyonnaise", "sauce lyonnaise", or " cardons à la lyonnaise".
  • A colloquial name for an official form of the game of pétanque, in France, also called sport-boules, jeu national, or la boule lyonnaise.
  • A silverplate cutlery pattern, also called "Eastlake", which debuted in 1879 manufactured by at least four different companies: Holmes and Edwards, Toronto Silverplate, Aurora Plate and James W. Tufts. In some examples, the bird in the pattern design is exchanged for a squirrel.
  • Lyonnaise (grape), another name for the Swiss wine grape Räuschling

Usage examples of "lyonnaise".

She had come across the name of a character a Lyonnaise courtesan in a De Maupassant short story, Isabella later told me, and had taken it for her own.

Venus de Milos framing the Credit Lyonnaise Building, and a line of fifteen-foot nutcrackers standing guard against the columns of the Paine-Webber, but no Ellis Sinclair.

I threw up my hands, knowing little and caring less of these Lyonnaise follies.

Mostly men, working-class Lyonnaise by their looks, with the dulled skin of people who have not eaten properly in years, dressed in new drab issue-clothing of the same sort she was wearing.

Baron von Hacklheber says that the idea is not wholly new, having been well understood by the Genoese, the Florentines, the Augsburgers, the Lyonnaise for many generations.

Her looks came from her mother, a Lyonnaise noblewoman whose family fortune had been wiped out when the Revolution swept her country.

She had come across the name of a character - a Lyonnaise courtesan in a De Maupassant short story, Isabella later told me, and had taken it for her own.

I brought asparagus salad, corn chowder, and potatoes lyonnaise from the wedding.

After it was over the robots had another dinner for him, roast beef and baked ham, potatoes Lyonnaise, and gooseberry fool with clotted Devonshire cream.