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Noun	1.	ecrevisse - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly crawdad, crawfish, crayfish Old World crayfish, ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America American crayfish - common large crayfishes of eastern North America shellfish - meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean)
	2.	ecrevisse - small crayfish of Europe and Asia and western North America Old World crayfish crawdaddy, crawfish, crawdad, crayfish - small freshwater decapod crustacean that resembles a lobster Astacus, genus Astacus - type genus of the family Astacidae; Old World crayfish crawdad, crawfish, ecrevisse, crayfish - tiny lobster-like crustaceans usually boiled briefly

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Roast partridges, flanked with quails and flanking a larded leveret; boiled fowls; hams, fried and sprinkled with white wine, cardons of Guipuzcoa and la bisque ecrevisses : these, together with soups and hors d'oeuvres , constituted the governor's bill of fare.

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Ce qui est bien avec le coup de soleil, c'est qu'on sait quand il est la, notre peau devient rouge, on a tendance a ressembler a une ecrevisse ebouillantee.

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However, I would give top marks to the Bisque de Homard et Ecrevisse (lobster and crayfish bisque served with Quenelles and turnip).

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One divine sample menu dreamed up by Selbey, the chef on the European Waterways' L'Impressionniste barge: French onion soup, lamb with minted peas, and poached pear with mascarpone ice cream paired with a white Pernand Vergelles and red Meursault, Ecrevisse salad, Coq au Vin and fresh fruits paired with a white Ladoix and red Moulin -- a vent and escargot, tender scallops and mousse au chocolat paired with Rose Marsannay.

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And that American girl at the Club tonight trying to talk in French, saying Hemingway was the greatest American ecrevisse so far.

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Comme justement elle est en train de le faire, une grosse ecrevisse qui etait cachee dans l'eau la saisit au pied et ne la lache plus.

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For example, Georges Cuvier, the French naturalist (1769-1832), though an Immortel, was not on the dictionary committee; he was shocked to learn that ecrevisse 'crayfish' had been defined as 'a little red fish that walks backward.' He asked for the floor, and said, "The crayfish is not a fish, it is not red, and it does not walk backward.

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The Cassolettes range comes in individual clay pots and features Cassolette de St Jacques aux Poireaux (scallops with leeks); Cassolette de la Met sauce Ecrevisse (mixed seafood with crayfish sauce); Cassolette au Crabe sauce au Vin Blanc (crab in white wine sauce) and Cassolette de Volaille a la Reine (chicken, ham and mushrooms in cream sauce with emmental cheese).

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Usually known as a crawfish, crawdad, ecrevisse, mud bug, it is highly prized.

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