bigarade

bi·ga·rade

B0237800 (bē′gä-räd′) n. 1. See bitter orange.2. A rich sauce served with duck, consisting of thickened stock flavored with the rind of bitter oranges, and often with lemon juice and sugar.

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[French, from Provençal bigarrado, variegated, bigarade (bitter oranges possibly being so called from varieties with striated fruit or variegated foliage), from past participle of bigarrar, to variegate, from Middle French bigarrer : bi-, two (from Latin; see bi-¹) + garre, of two colors (from Old French, of unknown origin).]

bigarade

(biːɡarɑːd) n1. a Seville orange2. (Cookery) a sauce made with Seville oranges

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bigarade - any of various common orange trees yielding sour or bitter fruit; used as grafting stockbitter orange, bitter orange tree, Citrus aurantium, marmalade orange, Seville orange, sour orangebitter orange, Seville orange, sour orange - highly acidic orange used especially in marmaladegenus Citrus - orange; lemon; lime; etc.orange tree, orange - any citrus tree bearing oranges