sainfoin
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈseɪnfɔɪn/
sainfoin
- A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:
- I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]
- 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:
- French: sainfoin
- German: Esparsette
- Portuguese: sanfeno
- Russian: эспарце́т
- Spanish: pipirigallo, esparceta
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