"fleur de sel" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: fleurs de sel [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French fleur de sel (literally “salt flower, salt blossom”). Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|fr|fleur de sel|lit=salt flower, salt blossom}} Borrowed from French fleur de sel (literally “salt flower, salt blossom”) Head templates: {{en-noun|fleurs de sel|nolinkhead=1}} fleur de sel (plural fleurs de sel)
  1. Floating salt crystals skimmed from the surface of evaporation ponds, used in cooking. Translations (Translations): flor de sal [feminine] (Catalan), salfloro (Esperanto), fleur de sel [feminine] (French), flor de sal [feminine] (Portuguese), flor de sal [feminine] (Spanish)

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