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noun, masculine

cresson

/kʁə.sɔ̃/

noun, masculine/kʁə.sɔ̃/plural: cressons

watercress

[…]et près d'eux, derrière le vitrage, en plein soleil, un petit jet d'eau gargouillait dans un bassin de marbre où, parmi du cresson et des asperges, trois homards engourdis s'allongeaient jusqu'à des cailles, toutes couchées en pile, sur le flanc.… and near them, behind the glass, in the full sunlight, a small jet of water gurgled in a marble basin where, amidst watercress and asparagus, three lethargic lobsters stretched out toward some quails, all piled up on their sides.

Related: cresson alénois, cresson de fontaine

Inherited from Middle French cresson, from Old French kerson, from Frankish *krassjō (compare German Kresse).

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