/meuhn yair"/ ; Fr. /mue nyerdd"/ , adj.
(of food, esp. fish) dipped in flour, sautéed in butter, and sprinkled with lemon juice and chopped parsley.
[ 1840-50; à la meunière lit., in the manner of a miller's wife; fem. of meunier miller, OF molnier molinarius, equiv. to LL molin ( a ) MILL 1 + L -arius -ARY ( -eu- from meule millstone or meut earlier inflected form of moudre to grind) ]