sainfoin
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).
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Noun[edit]
sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)
- A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:
- I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:
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perennial herbs
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French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
sainfoin m (plural sainfoins)
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Further reading[edit]
- “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
- “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
- “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “sainfoin” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
- “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
- “sainfoin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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