saignant

Easily 700 g of thick, red, truly "saignant" meat, this was served on a bed of roasted new potatoes, snow peas, peas, and carrots.

L'ami Jean Etienne 2006

Easily 700 g of thick, red, truly "saignant" meat, this was served on a bed of roasted new potatoes, snow peas, peas, and carrots.

Archive 2006-04-01 Etienne 2006

It's rarer saignant on stage, but Arnold Wesker put it there nearly half a century ago.

Decade; The Tempest; The Kitchen; Parade – review 2011

S’il ne bat qu’en saignant par sa plaie immortelle, 5

La Maison du Berger 1920

Beefsteak bien cuit, beefsteak well-done, saignant underdone.

Paris and Northern France 1867

The French talk about the Briton's "_bifteck saignant_," but we never saw anything cooked so as to be, as we should say, "rare."

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

The French talk about the Briton's "_bifteck saignant_," but we never saw anything cooked so as to be, as we should say, "rare."

Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

Some of the deputies applauded, others turned away their heads or hid their faces in their hands; some more courageous, forced the wretch who bore the _coeur saignant_, partly by entreaties, partly by threats, to retire with his emblem of assassination.

History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829

If Meyer has made the vampire story safe for her readers (and their parents) - the sole real menace comes from a half-baked subplot involving some swaggering vampires who like their steak saignant and human - it's only because she suggests that there actually is something worse than death, especially for teenagers: sex.

The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2009

If Meyer has made the vampire story safe for her readers (and their parents) - the sole real menace comes from a half-baked subplot involving some swaggering vampires who like their steak saignant and human - it's only because she suggests that there actually is something worse than death, especially for teenagers: sex.

The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2009