pétrin
See also: Petřin
French
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French pestrin, inherited from Latin pistrīnum.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpétrin m (plural pétrins)
- kneading trough
- 1778, Antoine Augustin Parmentier, Le parfait boulanger ou traité complet sur la fabrication & le commerce du pain[1], page 367:
- [...] lorsque le brigadier est levé & qu’il jouit complètement de son intelligence, la première chose sur laquelle il doit porter son regard, c’est le levain ; sortir ensuite pour s’assurer de l’état du ciel ; voir après cela le baromètre ; visiter la chaudière en hiver ; faire apporter la farine ; construire dans le pétrin une fontaine si elle n’étoit pas déjà faite ; enfin ne rien négliger de tous ces détails préliminaires, qui en apparence semblent être fort peu de chose, mais qui dans le fait influent sensiblement sur le succès du pétrissage et de la fournée [...]
- [...] when the brigadier wakes up and is fully alert, the first thing that he should turn to is the starter; then, go out to check the state of the sky; then the barometer; in the winter, visit the boiler; then have the flour brought in; then build a fountain in the kneading trough if not already done; in short, to not neglect any of these preliminary details, which superficially seem to be very little, but which in fact have a significant influence on the steps of the kneading and baking process [...]
- (figuratively, colloquial) a pickle, mess, scrape, the soup
- Synonym: mouise
- être dans le pétrin ― to be in a jam, to be in the soup
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- Haitian Creole: petren
Further reading
edit- “pétrin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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