Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A flat, often leaf-shaped bread from Provence flavored with olive oil and topped with herbs, onions, or other items.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as fougade.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A type of
lattice -shapedbread associated with the area ofProvence . - noun An old-fashioned type of
land mine , in the form of afoxhole filled withexplosives orprojectiles .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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To make French bâtards or anadama, breads of rye or spelt, fougasse with olives and semolina, they need flour, and for flour, they need wheat.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce.
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In the 5th, I sometimes have a summer lunch that involves pain fougasse aux olives from this nice lady at the Place Maubert market.
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In the 5th, I sometimes have a summer lunch that involves pain fougasse aux olives from this nice lady at the Place Maubert market.
La Coquette: 2006
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The bakery serendipitously encountered on the road from Sebastopol to Bodega Bay with a wood oven, a cadre of jolly dyke bakers, and the most amazing fougasse
California Dreaming No More Becca 2005
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Here's the fougasse (the larger loaf) and some cheese bread (top photo), followed by the bag of bread from yesterday, though a couple of the baguettes are missing, as are two of the cranberry-pecans.
Archive 2005-11-01 Emma Goldman 2005
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We've been baking bread this week--brioche, puff pastry, croissant dough used for Danishes, fermented breads, breads made with sourdough starters, cranberry-pecan bread, baguettes, fougasse--you name it, we've made it, or we will be making it within a day or two.
Bags O Bread Emma Goldman 2005
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We've been baking bread this week--brioche, puff pastry, croissant dough used for Danishes, fermented breads, breads made with sourdough starters, cranberry-pecan bread, baguettes, fougasse--you name it, we've made it, or we will be making it within a day or two.
Archive 2005-11-01 Emma Goldman 2005
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Here's the fougasse (the larger loaf) and some cheese bread (top photo), followed by the bag of bread from yesterday, though a couple of the baguettes are missing, as are two of the cranberry-pecans.
Bags O Bread Emma Goldman 2005
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The bakery serendipitously encountered on the road from Sebastopol to Bodega Bay with a wood oven, a cadre of jolly dyke bakers, and the most amazing fougasse
Archive 2005-03-01 Becca 2005
bilby commented on the word fougasse
French version of the Italian focaccia.
November 27, 2007
urfy commented on the word fougasse
also an improvised sort of landmine, used for many centuries, also in WW1; whence the pen name of a British cartoonist who fought in that war.
November 27, 2007