reinetten.
/reɪˈnɛt/, U.S. /reɪˈnɛt/ Any of a group of varieties of dessert or cooking apple, chiefly of French origin, characterized by russeting, strong flavour, and good keeping properties. Also with distinguishing (now usually French) word or words. Cf. rennet n.2
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costardc1390
bitter-sweet1393
pippin?1435
pomewater?1435
Queening?1435
richardine?1435
blaundrellc1440
pear apple1440
tuberc1440
quarrendenc1450
birtle1483
sweeting1530
pomeroyal1534
renneta1568
deusan1570
apple-john1572
Richard1572
lording1573
russeting1573
greening1577
queen apple1579
peeler1580
reinette1582
darling1584
doucin1584
golding1589
puffin1589
lady's longing1591
bitter-sweeting1597
pearmain1597
paradise apple1598
garden globe1600
gastlet1600
leather-coat1600
maligar1600
pomeroy1600
short-start1600
jenneting1601
pome-paradise1601
russet coat1602
John apple1604
honey apple1611
honeymeal1611
musk apple1611
short-shank1611
spice apple1611
French pippin1629
king apple1635
lady apple1651
golden pippin1654
goldling1655
puff1655
cardinal1658
renneting1658
green fillet1662
chestnut1664
cinnamon apple1664
fenouil1664
go-no-further1664
reinetting1664
Westbury apple1664
seek-no-farther1670
nonsuch1676
white-wining1676
russet1686
calville1691
fennel apple1699
queen1699
genet1706
fig-apple1707
oaken pin1707
musk1708
nonpareil1726
costing1731
monstrous reinette1731
Newtown pippin1760
Ribston1782
Rhode Island greening1795
oslin1801
wine apple1802
fall pippin1803
monstrous pippin1817
Newtown Spitzenburg1817
Gravenstein1821
Red Astrachan1822
Tolman sweet1822
grange apple1823
orange pippin1823
Baldwin1826
wine-sap1826
Jonathan1831
Sturmer Pippin1831
rusty-coat1843
Newtowner1846
Northern Spy1847
Cornish gilliflowerc1850
Blenheim Orange1860
Cox1860
nutmeg pippin1860
McIntosh Red1876
Worcester1877
raspberry apple1894
delicious1898
Laxton's Superb1920
Melba apple1928
Melba1933
Mutsu1951
Newtown1953
discovery1964
1582 Rates Custome House (new ed.) sig. Aiij Appuls called pippins or reinets the bushel xij.d.
1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 125 The Grey Reinet.
1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. x. 44 Its Juice is very sweet, being more pleasant to the Taste than the Reynette.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Apple Apples..proper for a Desert,..Golden Reinette,..La Reinette grise.
1800 H. Glasse Compl. Confectioner (rev. ed.) 346 Among the fruits with kernels there are few which the distillers make use of except the reinette apple, the rouselet pear, and the quince.
1862 D. T. Ansted & R. G. Latham Channel Islands iv. xxi. 488 The reinettes (or rennets) are a large group.
1920 E. A. Runyard Handbk. Hardy Fruits I. 13 Cox's Group.—This contains the Reinettes and includes a very large proportion of the best flavoured fruits.
1989 Sunday Correspondent 17 Sept. 49/2 150 shades of apple, from tiny Pitmaston Pineapples to..Orleans Reinettes (magical cooked with baked mackerel).
2006 B. E. Juniper & D. J. Mabberley Story of Apple v. 151 One interpretation is that at least some reinettes are sports, displaying distinctive and attractive differences, from a well-established cultivar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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