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There’s an entire salad bowl of chocolate mousse, perfectly bitter and rich, and a Paris-Brest the circumference of a tricycle wheel, with enormous puffs of hazelnut mousse and a dripping seam of blackberry jam.—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 14 June 2026 And nuts — almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts — along with vegetables like artichokes, broccoli and eggplant round out a diet where fiber shows up naturally at breakfast, lunch and dinner.—Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 13 June 2026 The cafe roasts its own hazelnuts for the hazelnut latte.—Jenna Thompson
june 10, Kansas City Star, 10 June 2026 From the annals of cooking past, sauce jouvert, spunky with marjoram, red wine vinegar, both walnuts and hazelnuts, and breadcrumbs, is raised from the annals of recipe history to be draped over pretty much any kind of vegetable.—Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 8 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for hazelnut
Word History
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
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The first known use of hazelnut was
before the 12th century