fricassee

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It assured him, in the first place, that the danger of his being converted into a stew or a fricassee was not imminent.

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  1. noun Poultry or meat cut into pieces and stewed in gravy.
  2. transitive verb To prepare (poultry or meat) by cutting into pieces and stewing in gravy.

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  • I do not remember of what our dinner consisted, but we usually had soup and some plain dish of meat, the remains of which were occasionally served up at supper as a fricassee. —  Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published
  • After dancing with everybody and anybody, she finished up by dancing a Savoyard dance, called a fricassee , with a nobody. —  Love affairs of the Courts of Europe
  • 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 fricassee or a ragout —  MetaFilter Projects
  • Like the cacciatore turned fricassee, the goal is to find variations on favorite recipes to keep everyday dinners inspiring. —  SFGate: Top News Stories
  • "Is there anything else in the house, Sapph--Sophia No, ma'am," replied Sophia Oh, tell the cook to make it into a fricassee, and be sure it is well flavoured." —  The Daughters of Danaus
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  1. French fricassée, from Old French, from feminine past participle of fricasser, to fricassee : probably frire, to fry (from Latin frīgere, to roast, fry) + casser, to break, crack (from Latin quassāre, to shake, shatter; see squash2) or Vulgar Latin *coāctiāre, to press together (from Latin coāctus, past participle of cōgere, to drive or bring together; see cogent).

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  1. from F fricassée, a fricassee, any meat fried in a pan; also a charge for a mortar, consisting of stones, bullets, nails, and pieces of old iron mixed with grease and gunpowder; properly past participle feminine of fricasser, fricassee, also squander. Usually referred to F. frier, fry, from Latin frigere, fry, but this is phonetically improbable. The sense points rather to L. fricare, rub, or to F. fracasser, break in pieces; but a connection with either of these verbs has not been made out. Cf. fricandeau.
  2. Formerly also fricasee (and fricasse); from the noun.
 

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