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Ragueneau
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English
Etymology
From the character in Cyrano de Bergerac.
Noun
A kind and generous pastry chef, especially one who is fat and who is a good companion or friend.
en I defend the pudgy Sancho Panzas, the rotund Ragueneaus, and the sentimental Samwise Gamgees of the world. 87=88 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Romance_of_Religion/5EwnAgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22samwise+gamgees%22&pg=PA87&printsec=frontcover The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty Dwight Longenecker 2014
en Claude Coutel is the Ragueneau of Parisian restaurants. His fixed-price meals inciuding wine are copious. 137 McGraw-Hill Paris 1955
en terms derived from fiction eponyms
en Fictional characters