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| | Courgette |
 | | Courgette, the name used in France and Britain, could easily, the present writer felt, have been Icelandicised as *korsétta, but this appears not to have occurred to anyone apart from the writer, and the word is used by no-one apart from the members of his immediate family, and probably not even by them. |
 | | Courgette, the name by which they are known in France and also in Britain, is the diminutive of courge, an alternative form of gourde, and derives therefore also from cucurbita. |
 | | The courgettes one encounters in the vegetable section of Icelandic supermarkets are almost obscenely large a good foot long some of them and look as if they might have been prize-winners at some agricultural show, rather than anything designed for the table. |
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