[
US
/ˌfɫædʒəˈɫɛt/
]
[ UK /flˈeɪdʒɒlət/ ]
[ UK /flˈeɪdʒɒlət/ ]
NOUN
- a French bean variety with light-colored seeds; usually dried
- a small fipple flute with four finger holes and two thumb holes
How To Use flageolet In A Sentence
- For my main course I had chosen a cassoulet of pork, lamb and duck with flageolet beans.
- Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion.
- The Chinese flageolet is a tube measuring a little more than a foot in length. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese
- I'm good at lamb shank, flageolet beans and garlic.
- Lunch is a roast leg of lamb with juicy roast vine tomatoes and a flageolet bean gratin.
- Dozens of patients, mostly dressed in black, marched through the streets following a draped coffin while musicians played a dirge on a flageolet and melodion.
- The flageolet was the latest form of the treble, beak, or whistle head flute. Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891
- Then the gathering of the vraic was a fete, and the lads and lasses footed it on the green or on the hard sand, to the chance flageolets of sportive seamen home from the war. The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms
- So too was a chunky lamb chump chop with flageolet beans, skins still intact, but gloriously floury within, all mixed up with creamy goats' cheese and surrounded by rich brown rosemary gravy.
- W.lliam and I, and it being very hot weather I took my flageolette and played upon the leads in the garden, where Sir W. Pen came out in his shirt into his leads, and there we staid talking and singing, and drinking great drafts of claret, and eating botargo Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S.