▪ I. grenadine1 Cookery.
(ˈgrɛnədiːn)
[a. F. grenadin: cf. grenade n.2]
(See quots.)
| 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Grenadin, a sort of Farce, or stuff'd Meat laid upon thin slices of Bacon in a Baking-pan, with a hollow place to receive a Fowl cut into Halves and dress'd in a Ragoo. 1736 Bailey Househ. Dict. 247 Ducks in Grenadines..Glaze them..pour a cullis of ham into the dish, put in the grenadine, and serve them up hot. 1846 Francatelli Mod. Cook p. xii, Fricandeau and Grenadins consist of the primest parts of veal, or fillets of poultry, &c. smoothly trimmed, larded, and brightly glazed with a concentration of their own liquor. |
▪ II. grenadine2
(ˈgrɛnədiːn)
Also 8 grenadin.
[a. F. grenadine; ? f. the name of the Spanish city Granada.]
An open silk or silk and wool textile used for dresses.
| 1852 E. Twisleton Let. 15 July (1928) ii. 30, I..went in my purple Grenadine..and my lace bonnet. 1865 Pall Mall G. 13 May 4 Their handsome moiré or grenadine. 1869 F. B. Palliser Lace xv. (ed. 2) 183 From its being a grenadine, not a shining silk, a common error prevails that it is of thread. 1879 Geo. Eliot Theo. Such (ed. 2) 178 Ophelia in fleshings and a voluminous brevity of grenadine. 1890 Daily News 24 Mar. 6/1 Very light and transparent woollen materials of the kind that used to be called barège, mousseline-de-laine, and grenadine. |
| attrib. 1861 Mrs. Gaskell Let. 23 May (1966) 652 Silk barège scarf shawls, 35s—grenadine shawls ditto. 1864 Daily Tel. 8 June, A charge of {pstlg}59 for one grenadine dress and trimmings. |
▪ III. grenadine3
(grɛnəˈdiːn)
[ad. F. (sirop de) grenadine, f. grenade grenade n.1]
A syrup made from pomegranates (or other fruit).
| 1896 F. B. & W. H. Workman Algerian Mem. 43 We found syrup of grenadine, or pomegranate with water, a delicious drink. 1905 W. J. Locke Morals Marcus Ordeyne xii. 148, I..restore her to beatitude with grenadine syrup and soda-water. 1906 Daily Chron. 21 July 8/5 One of them, prepared from ripe gooseberries, is particularly delicious. It is called grenadine. 1913 C. Mackenzie Sinister St. I. i. ix. 130 Michael thought grenadine sucrée was just as nice as it looked. 1958 R. Godden Greengage Summer ix. 106 Mademoiselle Zizi had joined us for drinks; we had the pink grenadine sirop. |