Marengo Definition

mə-rĕnggō
adjective
Prepared with tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic, onion, and white wine.
Veal Marengo.
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Origin of Marengo

  • After Marengo , a village of northwest Italy (probably from the chicken dish served to Napoleon following his victory over the Austrians here on June 14, 1800)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Marengo Sentence Examples

  • The campaign culminating at Marengo wu the result.

  • Cisalpine and Ligurian Republics (reconstituted soon after Marengo) were recognized by Austria on condition that they were independent of France.

  • In the first of these spheres the victory of Marengo (14th of June 1800) was of special importance, as it consolidated the reputation of Bonaparte at a time when republican opposition was gathering strength.

  • As Lucien Bonaparte remarked, if Marengo had been lost - and it was saved only by Desaix and Kellermann - the Bonaparte family would have been proscribed.

  • The memoirs (which may be accepted as mainly Napoleon's, though Montholon undoubtedly touched them up) range over most of the events of his life from Toulon to Marengo.

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