sainfoin

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænfɔɪn/, /ˈseɪnfɔɪn/

sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)

1. A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:

     I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]

• Spanish sanfoin (Onobrychis iberica)

• sinfonia

From sain + foin.

• IPA^(key): /sɛ̃.fwɛ̃/

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sainfoin m (plural sainfoins)

1. sainfoin

   Synonym: fenasse

• “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie françoise, 4th Edition (1762).
• “sainfoin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “sainfoin” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
• “sainfoin” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.
• “sainfoin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.