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Julienne

2 stages from French to English.

Today it means food, especially vegetables, cut into thin matchstick-shaped strips
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Stage 1 of 2
Jules
French · 1700s
"a given name, later a cutting style"
possibly from the given name Jules, associated with a style of finely cut vegetables
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julienne
English · 1841
"food cut into thin matchstick strips"
adopted directly for the technique of cutting food into thin matchstick strips
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