[
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
- It is a winter dish because it is very hearty and uses preserved meats such as sausages and duck confit, cooked with white beans called flageolet. THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK
- I have suggested flageolet or lima beans here as they survive the canning process rather better than some.
- Delicious 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.
- Doom throbbed to the waves, but the flageolet stirred in him not so much surprise at this incongruous experience as a wave of emotion where all his past of gaillard was crystalled in a second -- many nights of dance and song anew experienced in a mellow note or two; an old love reincarnated in a phrase (and the woman in the dust); the evenings of Doom Castle
- Here all is atwitter with prominent flageolet and flutes.
- For my main course I had chosen a cassoulet of pork, lamb and duck with flageolet beans.
- On the stand was a whole new group of musicians: harpists, lyrists, players of the flageolet and dulcimer, two men sweating over glockenspiels, a group equipped with zithers and citharas and sitars, three women playing nose-flutes, two men with shofars, and a tall, blond man playing a clarino trumpet. Pagan Passions
- The music consists of the biniou or bagpipe, and the flageolet or hautboy, sometimes with the addition of a drum. Brittany & Its Byways
- The flageolet is the musical instrument of young men and is principally used in love-affairs to attract the attention of the maiden and reveal the presence of the lover," says Miss Alice Primitive Love and Love-Stories
- Diagrams relating fingering to notes have occasionally been used for such wind instruments as the recorder, flageolet, oboe, and clarinet in instrumental tutors since the 16th century.