Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pistachio.

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

  • noun (Bot.) The anacardiaceous tree Pistacia vera, which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it. Called also pistachio.

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Examples

  • You strain off the water and, after seconds instead of the laborious minutes of hand labor this task used to take, you are ready to make the famous Provençal "pistache" of lamb with 50 garlic cloves that you might have otherwise shrunk from cooking.

    Snaring the Elusive Thermomix 2009

  • I love to describe a colour tone by adding a food adjective like pistache for pistachio green because it shows how much food and colour are related.

    foodbeam » La vie en rose – Macarons à la rose de Pierre Hermé 2006

  • Enfin MON repas jene mange que le soir se limite a un pot la laitiere de flanc pistache - _ -.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • A midi j'pestais devant mon flanc a la pistache d'une part parce que le flanc a la pistache c le seul truc que j'arrive a manger sous traitement et que malheureusement ajd'hui je n'y arrivais pas.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Voila ca fait presque un an que j'bouffe un pot de flanc a la pistache par jour et mon estomac a declaré forfait ajd'hui ....

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • I love to describe a colour tone by adding a food adjective like pistache for pistachio green because it shows how much food and colour are related.

    foodbeam » 2006 » June 2006

  • En fait j'en sais rien le 14 m'etant empifré de chocolat a n'en plus finir j'me suis dit que ct plutot le chocolat et tous les paket de chips et cahouete et pistache que j'm'envoyait en jouant a la play qui faisait que j'avais des brulures d'estomac, mais la maintenant ca continue alors que j'a arrété de manger des connerie ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Seriously though, I am thinking of going with the pistache.

    I hardly know where to begin with this one 2005

  • Seriously though, I am thinking of going with the pistache.

    La Coquette: 2005

  • Take the white of one egg, and measure just as much cold water; mix the two well, and stir stiff with confectioners 'sugar; add a little flavoring, vanilla, or almond, or pistache, and, for some candies, color with a tiny speck of fruit paste.

    A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl Caroline French Benton

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