crapaudine

A method of preparing fowl and poultry, where the back is split apart and the bird is flattened down the breast, looking somewhat like a toad; spatchcock.

“Chicken cutlets,” said she, “or crapaudine, and some serniki — only let them be as good as they were last night.

4. Crapaudine of chicken , mashed potatoes

A type of piquant sauce flavored with tarragon, lemon or vinegar, and other spices, that is traditionally served with a fowl cooked in the crapaudine style.

Spring chickens singed, split, washed, backbone andd breastbone removed, trussed out like a frog, seasoned with salt and peper, rolled in olive oil, broiled well done ; served on toast with crapaudine sauce poured around, garnished with parsley and lemon.

Crapaudine Sauce

A form of torture in which the hands and feet are tied together behind the back, forcing the victim's body to bow, and sometimes accompanied by additional forms of torture, such as suspending the body by the point where the hands and feet a

A few years ago Herr von Rader and his companions would have been sentenced to quite a curious kind of punishment which was at that time considered in the Foreign Legion to be a radical cure for deserters — a kind of mediaeval torture which, by the way, was not kept for deserters solely, but came into use very often. This was the “silo” and the “crapaudine.”

After several more hours of the crapaudine, the two prisoners were cut down and left chained hand and foot on the ground, exposed to sun, rain, and mosquitoes for twenty-nine days.

An ulcer on the coronet of a horse, sheep, or donkey.

The morbid principle is eliminated without apparent disturbance, and is fixed in a more or less apparent manner on the surface of the skin, or in certain cavities which have external openings. I this category are included glanders, farey, scrofula, lupus, canker of horses' feet, (crapaudine,) elephantiasis, tinea, lepra, &c.

The anterior face of the coronet is sometimes the seat of an affection called crapaudine, which is characterized by a peculiar modification of the secretory function of the coronary band, which becomes fissured and cracked after the manner of the bark of an old tree.

A toadstone.

A HORN RING, very massive, with a silver bezel, set with a crapaudine, XIVth Century. It was found near Richmond, in Yorkshire.

In One thousand Notable Things we are directed to set a doubtful crapudine before a living toad, who will disregard it if a forgery, but endeavour to seize it if genuine: "for he envieth much that man should have that stone."