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Definition of romaine in English English dictionary: Lactuca sativa longifolia, a type of lettuce having long crisp leaves forming a slender head. Also known as Romaine lettuce, Cos lettuce, or Cos, after the Greek island of Cos (Kos); lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head; {i} variety of lettuce with long dark green leaves; a type of bitter-tasting lettuce with long leaves (romain )
Romaine Goddard Brooks: orig. Beatrice Romaine Goddard born May 1, 1874, Rome, Italy died Dec. 7, 1970, Nice, Fr. U.S. painter. Born to wealthy American parents, she studied painting in Italy. After a brief marriage, in 1905 she moved to Paris where she established herself in literary, artistic, and homosexual circles. Her reputation reached its height in 1925 with several important exhibitions. Her gray-shaded portraits, touched by occasional colour, distilled their subjects' personalities to a disturbing degree. The Amazon ( 1920), Brooks's portrait of her longtime lover Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972), is among her finest works
romaine lettuce: lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
romaine lettuce: lettuce with long dark-green spoon-shaped leaves
romaine lettuce: type of lettuce with long dark green leaves

romaine

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ro·maine

rōmeyn

/rōˈmān/ /roʊˈmeɪn/

() French, from romaine, the feminine of romain ("Roman"), from Latin Romanus

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