mirliton

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A pear-shaped vegetable or its vine; the chayote.

   “To start your mirliton plant, buy the fruit in a produce-oriented market in spring and plant it in full sunlight in fertile, well-drained soil, leaving the stem half of the fruit out of the ground.”

2. isim The eunuch flute, a kind of kazoo or membranophone.

   “In form the mirlitons resembled flutes, shawms, or other instruments, and were generally furnished with a parchment membrane.”

3. isim An 18th-century hussar hat resembling a slightly conical shako or tall fez.

   “Headwear: This was either the colpack or the mirliton. Regiments No. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 9 wore the former; 5, 6, 7 and 8 the latter.”

4. isim A tartlet or biscuit garnished with almond, first produced in Rouen around 1800.

   “[…] Have moulds prepared as for the mirlitons of Rouen; fill them and finish in the same manner.”