Talk:tournée

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RFD discussion: March–April 2021[edit]

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French: A French culinary technique to enhance meal presentations. The cut can be made of various sizes and resembles a seven-sided American football. WTF? Either some awesome trolling or a terrible definition. What "cut"? Of meat? A seven-sided American football?Yellow is the colour (talk) 21:14, 28 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

I vote for trolling: the words are used to give an impression of describing something specific, but they don't really mean anything. The tip-off that this nonsense is the "seven-sided" part: a heptagon is not an easy shape to work with- you only see it in contexts where the number 7 has some kind of symbolic significance. It doesn't help that this is the only edit of an IP that geolocates to Virginia Beach in the US.
This is a good illustration of why patrolling is so important: this was added almost 12 years ago, and only three edits to the French section since then were by human beings- each of them narrowly focused on something else. Chuck Entz (talk) 06:52, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Pentagonal prism
I wonder if it is ever used to mean tournedos? SemperBlotto (talk) 06:59, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Speedy delete; obvious nonsense. BTW, a seven-sided football would be a heptahedron (3D shape), not a heptagon (2D shape). It would not have much symmetry, except as a pentagonal prism.  --Lambiam 16:03, 29 March 2021 (UTC)Reply
Speedy delete. TLFi has quite a few interesting senses that are absent from Wiktionary, by the way. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 10:17, 30 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Speedied as probable vandalism. @PUC, could you look at the missing definitions? ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 16:23, 2 April 2021 (UTC)Reply