Meaning of crapaudine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.
   countable, uncountable
2. A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.
   countable, uncountable
3. A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet are tied or beating.
   countable, uncountable
4. An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
5. A toadstone.
   countable, uncountable
6. A device for calibrating a pendulum consisting of a dilatable plate that produces an artificial tilt of a clinometer.
   countable, uncountable
7. An heirloom variety of beet originating in France, and considered possibly the oldest beet cultivar.
   countable, uncountable
8. The socket in which the pivot of a door turns.
   countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

““Chicken cutlets,” said she, “or crapaudine, and some serniki — only let them be as good as they were last night.”

“4. Crapaudine of chicken , mashed potatoes”

“The method called crapaudine is another means of preparing a bird for the grill.”

“But how about a 1970s twist – a chicken crapaudine, which is spatchcocked by cutting under the breast but over the legs, and then flipped out?”

“Spring chickens singed, split, washed, backbone andd breastbone removed, trussed out like a frog, seasoned with salt and peper, rolled in olive oil, broiled well done ; served on toast with crapaudine sauce poured around, garnished with parsley and lemon.”

“Crapaudine Sauce”

“This includes the familiar Bearnaise and tartar sauces, as well as more mysterious sounding ones, like crapaudine (froglike) sauce, which is served with rabbit.”

“A few years ago Herr von Rader and his companions would have been sentenced to quite a curious kind of punishment which was at that time considered in the Foreign Legion to be a radical cure for deserters — a kind of mediaeval torture which, by the way, was not kept for deserters solely, but came into use very often. This was the “silo” and the “crapaudine.””

“After several more hours of the crapaudine, the two prisoners were cut down and left chained hand and foot on the ground, exposed to sun, rain, and mosquitoes for twenty-nine days.”

“The crapaudine was officially abolished by 1910. In 1920, Jacques Londres publicly protested the practice, suggesting that officers favored crapaudine despite the regulations.”

“The crapaudine, however, has never been officially abolished and there is a good chance that it is still being used as one of the ways of breaking a troublesome man's spirit.”

“The morbid principle is eliminated without apparent disturbance, and is fixed in a more or less apparent manner on the surface of the skin, or in certain cavities which have external openings. I this category are included glanders, farey, scrofula, lupus, canker of horses' feet, (crapaudine,) elephantiasis, tinea, lepra, &c.”

“The anterior face of the coronet is sometimes the seat of an affection called crapaudine, which is characterized by a peculiar modification of the secretory function of the coronary band, which becomes fissured and cracked after the manner of the bark of an old tree.”

“As Spang elaborated: A “crapaud” was a toad and a “crapaudine” was a disease of sheep, so what did that make “pigeon a la crapaudine”?”

“A HORN RING, very massive, with a silver bezel, set with a crapaudine, XIVth Century. It was found near Richmond, in Yorkshire.”

“In One thousand Notable Things we are directed to set a doubtful crapudine before a living toad, who will disregard it if a forgery, but endeavour to seize it if genuine: "for he envieth much that man should have that stone."”

“Some existing examples are ascribed to the fifteenth century, and in the inventory of the Duc de Berri (d. 1416 ) there is mention of a 'crapaudine' set in a golden ring.”

“This is accomplished by a device patterned after the crapaudine (Verbaandert & Melchior 1958) used to calibrate horizontal pendulums.”

“For position (2), 14 months' data were obtained in azimuth 47.8' (pendulum 87 and crapaudine 103) and three months' in azimuth 315.0" (pendulum 88 and crapaudine 114).”

“For any given crapaudine, individual determination of K at Bidston are mostly within 11% of the mean value of K and generally appear to be randomly distributed about the mean, suggesting that between periods of 15 and 65 s there is no significant dependence of K on the period of swing.”

“The true type of the crapaudine is 4 inches broad at the superior part, and becomes very regularly thinner until it reaches the length of 11 inches, which is the average.”

“One variety of garden beet, crapaudine ( GBC ) from the compagny Semaphor carries the same Hind III ctDNA profile as the male sterile Owen.”

“Crapaudine was already considered old when Vilmorin wrote about it in the late 1300s.”

“Today the French grow both a flattened type called Egyptian and the rounded crapaudine varieties.”

“A stone door socket (Crapaudine C), associated with a small patch of brick pavement and a large slab of stone forming the threshold of a doorway, was uncovered at a depth of 1.25 m . below surface.”

“They were mounted as crapaudine doors; i.e., supflat moldings, studded with rosettes, surmounted by a cyma ported by pivots fitted into sockets in threshold and lintel.”

“The main gate door at Lehun had a single threshold stone with the door pivot hole (crapaudine) bored into it.”

“on the use of pivots on top and bottom to make a door swing in crapaudine style, see Rudolf P. Hommel, China at work, New York: John Day, 1937, pp. 35 and 293.”

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