panade

Noun

panade (plural panades)

1. (obsolete) A dagger.
   • 1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Bantam Classics, The Reves Tale, line 9:

     Ay by his belt he baar a long panade

     And on his belt he bore a long dagger

2. Alternative form of panada (paste made with bread)

Etymology

Borrowed from Provençal panada.

Noun

panade f (plural panades)

1. A soup boiled in water from bread, butter, sometimes also egg yolk and milk
2. A paste, typically made of milk and bread
3. (figuratively) A state or experience of misery, poverty

References

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

Further reading

• “panade” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).