Meaning of Fricassee | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of fricassee.
   alt-of, alternative
2. Meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy.

Equivalents

Examples

“I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.”

““We have nothing but some Barbacue soused in wine in the Spanish fashion, and a few fricassées, or so.””

“With a quick sweep of my eye, I see fricassées, steamed bass and poached salmon, roast snipe, peacock, teal, mallard and quail, game pies and carbonados, tarts of marrowbone, neats' tongues, venison pasties, baked guinea fowl, compound salads, dishes of cream, quinces, comfits and marzipans, preserves, cheeses and fruits.”

“He went to the royal quarters and found the King sitting on the floor with a dish of fricassées from which he was feeding his dogs, making them take their turns checked by a small stick he was holding.”

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