meunière


meu·nière

M0261200 (mən-yâr′)adj. Rolled in flour and fried in butter, usually with lemon juice and chopped parsley sprinkled on top. Used of fish.
[French, from (à la) meunière, (in the style of) a miller's wife, from Old French munoiere, feminine of mounier, miller, from Late Latin molīnārius, from molīna, mill; see mill1.]

meunière

(mənˈjɛə; French mønjɛr) adj (Cookery) (of fish) dredged with flour, fried in butter, and served with butter, lemon juice, and parsley[French, literally: miller's wife]

meu•nière

(mənˈyɛər; Fr. mœˈnyɛr)

adj. (esp. of fish) dipped in flour and sautéed in butter. [1840–50; < French à la meunière literally, in the manner of a miller's wife]