Meaning

1 senses

  1. To prepare as a meringue dish.

Examples

3 sentences

  1. I'd like lemon meringue pie for dessert.

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  2. The cook carefully separated the albumen from the yolk to make meringue.

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  3. French words like "vin" give Americans trouble; but "meringue," a valuable clue, falls trippingly from the tongue.

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Origin

Borrowed from French meringue. Historically, it was believed that meringue was invented in

Borrowed from French meringue. Historically, it was believed that meringue was invented in and named for the Swiss village of Meiringen, but the term is now thought to derive instead from Middle Dutch meringue (“light evening meal”), of unclear origin:

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Forms

meringues, meringuing, meringued, meringued
Base formmeringue · to meringue
3rd person singularmeringues
Present participlemeringuing
Past simplemeringued
Past participlemeringued

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymeringue
he, she, itmeringues

Past simpleLesson

all personsmeringued

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave meringued
he, she, ithas meringued

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill meringue

Word family

1 related words
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Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mergerB2meridianmeritC2meritocracymermaid
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