The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chayote \Cha"yo"te\
a tropical West Indian vine ( Sechium edule) of the gourd family, which bears small white flowers and produces an edible fruit.
the edible fruit of the chayote[1] vine, having a pear shape with a furrowed skin, and usually green or white. It is also called choyote, christophene, mirliton, and vegetable pear
Wiktionary
n. 1 A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote. 2 (context music English) The eunuch flute, a kind of membranophone. 3 An 18th-century hussar hat resembling a slightly conical shako or tall fez. 4 A tartlet or biscuit garnished with almond, first produced in Rouen around 1800. 2006
Wikipedia
Mirliton may refer to:
- Chayote or mirliton (French Creole - also mirleton), a pear-shaped vegetable or its vine
- Mirliton, a comic book cat character created by Raymond Macherot and Raoul Cauvin
- Eunuch flute (also known as mirliton), a type of membranophone
- Le Mirliton, a Paris cabaret opened in 1885 by Aristide Bruant
- Mirliton (military), a tall hat worn by hussars and other light cavalrymen in the 18th century
Mirliton or Flügelmütze or Flügelkappe was a tall hat worn by hussars, light cavalrymen and light infantrymen in the period 1750–1800, and remaining in increasingly rare usage through the German Wars of Unification.
1742.jpg|The three Croatian light troops on the right wear the Flügelkappe. Uniforms are from circa 1750. 57.jpg|Two Prussian Hussars from 1792 wear the Flügelmütze, one with the death's head emblem. ch.jpg|The three French Chasseurs à Cheval in the center wear mirlitons. Their uniforms are from 1799.
References
Category:Hats Category:History of clothing (Western fashion)
Usage examples of "mirliton".
Lizzie explained that mirliton was a vegetable pear and alligator pears were avocados.
Then came a very wet day, and Mary was seated by the half-open window of the sitting-room, doing her embroidery in a desultory fashion between watching the rain, an feeling a little lonely and depressed, when Captain Spengler strode into the room, unannounced, in the full glory of his green, gold and scarlet uniform, complete with plumed mirliton, sabretache and sabre.
Spengler put his mirliton with its red and yellow plume carefully on the table and tossed aside his cloak, which landed half across the back of a chair and proceeded to drip on the polished floorboards in a melancholy fashion.
Les tableaux du maitre, je les voyais au Salon, aux Mirlitons, au Volney, chez Georges Petit, chez les amateurs de peinture et chez les femmes a la mode.
Italian stewed tomatoes, okra, mirlitons, V8 juice, and a little Tabasco sauce.
Taffy and Jeannot and Little Billee made the necessary music on their mirlitons, and the dancing soon became general, with plenty also to look on, for the garde had many customers who dined there on summer Sundays.