melangeur

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English

Etymology

From French mélangeur.

Noun

melangeur (plural melangeurs)

  1. A machine for grinding ingredients and mixing them when making chocolate (or rarely nut butter, etc), consisting of roller stones inside a drum.
    • 1921, The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, page 750:
      The nib, coarse or finely ground, is mixed with the sugar in a kind of edgerunner or grinding-mixer, called a melangeur. This consists of two heavy millstones supported on a granite floor.
    • 2017, Dorothy St. James, Asking for Truffle: A Southern Chocolate Shop Mystery, Crooked Lane Books, →ISBN:
      The melangeur Mabel and I had set up two days ago to grind the beans and sugar together was still churning away. I peeked into the grinder. Surprisingly, the mixture had turned into a silky smooth liquid. “That's the chocolate liquor,” []
  2. An instrument, essentially a capillary tube with a bulb at one end, for drawing and diluting specimens of blood for examination.

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