romaine

• Romaine

Ellipsis of romaine lettuce, from French laitue romaine, and direct borrowing of French romaine, from its supposed association with Rome.

• IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈmeɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn

romaine (countable and uncountable, plural romaines)

1. Ellipsis of romaine lettuce (“a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head”).
2. Ellipsis of crepe romaine (“a type of semi-sheer fabric”).

• moanier, moraine

Feminine of romain ("Roman") from Latin romanus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.mɛn/

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romaine

1. feminine singular of romain

romaine f (plural romaines)

1. (Louisiana) a dress
2. romaine, romaine lettuce

   Synonym: laitue romaine

• → English: romaine
• → Spanish: romana

• “romaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• moraine