roquette

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

Borrowed from French roquette. Cognate with rocket, see that entry for other cognates.

He walked slowly down the Rue de la Roquette. — The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
"Also, they may require your services in La Roquette!" — The Girl Philippa, Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
He seized his characters firmly for the central purpose of the play, stamped them in the idea, and by slightly raising and softening the object of study (as in the case of the ex-Huguenot, Duke de Montausier, {3} for the study of the Misanthrope, and, according to St. Simon, the Abbe Roquette for Tartuffe), generalized upon it so as to make it permanently human. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith

rocket, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa

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