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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Consommé or broth garnished with long thin strips of vegetables.
  • adjective Cut into long thin strips.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A clear soup containing various herbs or vegetables cut in very small pieces.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun cooking a garnish of vegetables cut into long, thin strips.
  • verb transitive To prepare by cutting in this way.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cut into long thin strips
  • noun a vegetable cut into thin strips (usually used as a garnish)
  • noun a clear soup garnished with julienne vegetables

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, probably from the name Julienne.]

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From French julienne

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