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‖ Maintenon|mɛ̃tənɔ̃|
The name of the Marquise de Maintenon, secretly married to Louis XIV in 1685; used attrib. in names of things arbitrarily called after her, as Maintenon bonnet, Maintenon chop, Maintenon cutlet; Maintenon cross [= F. maintenon], a cross with a diamond at the extremity of each limb, worn as an ornament.
[1710Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Oct., We had a neck of mutton dressed à la Maintenon, that the dog could not eat.] 1805Sporting Mag. XXV. 226 Veal cutlets, haricoed mutton, maintenon chops. 1836Marryat Three Cutters v, ‘And what else, sir?’ ‘Maintenon cutlets, my lord.’ 1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz, Tales viii, Mr. Alexander Trott sat down to a fried sole, maintenon cutlet, Madeira, and sundries. 1884West. Daily Press 13 June 7/6 The popular form of bonnet is that called ‘Maintenon’. |