A WORD A DAY.
MARINATE. Here is a kitchen word which has the wide sea as a background; in fact, there is a close connection between it and “marine.” The Latin mare, “sea,” the root of “marine,” is also the source of the French mariner, “to preserve food for use at sea”—and it is this word which grew into the noun marinade, a brine or pickle for enriching and preserving meat and fish. When we incorporated this word into English, a suitable verb form seemed a necessity, and “marimwe” came into being. We apply it to culinary art of pickling foods and preserving them in oil or vinegar. Pronounced mari-nate, with first a as in mat, i as it, second a as in late. Example: “They marinated the meat before setting out on the journey.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21715, 30 May 1932, Page 8
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135A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21715, 30 May 1932, Page 8
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