fricassée

See also: fricassee

English

Noun

fricassée (plural fricassées)

1. Alternative spelling of fricassee.
   • 1858, George W[alter] Thornbury, Every Man His Own Trumpeter, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 164:

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

   • 1989, Rose Tremain, “Wedding Games”, in Restoration: A Novel, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN; republished London: Random House, 2010, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2000, David Fraser, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 245:

     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.

Verb

fricassée (third-person singular simple present fricassées, present participle fricasséeing, simple past and past participle fricasséed)

1. Alternative spelling of fricassee.
   • 1827, a Lady, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; […], London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 414:

     The hind quarters may be fricaséed, ragoûted, or done in a timbale or casserole, with any of the fine herb seasoning, and served as a first-course dish; […]

   • 1862, Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone], The Cook and Housewife’s Manual: A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management; […], 11th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., page 292:

     To Fricassée Cold Beef.

     This edition was published after the author’s death. Earlier editions (first published in 1826) have fricassee.

   • 1995, Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 105:

     “Frogs were killed and as conscientiously fricasséed à la mode de Paris when we had learnt all other lessons from them.”

   • 2005, David Wishart, Food for the Fishes, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

     That got me a wordless glare that would’ve fricasséed a squid.

   • 2008, Émile Zola, translated by April Fitzlyon, Ladies’ Delight, Oneworld Classics, →ISBN, page 281:

     Then, against the wall, there were gridirons big enough for burning martyrs, saucepans in which a whole sheep could be fricasséed, a monumental plate-warmer, a marble basin filled with a continual trickle of water.

     This edition was published after the translator’s death. The first edition (1957) has fricasseed.

   • 2017, Miles Jupp, Egg & Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN:

     I didn’t know it at the time, but I was fricasséeing.

French

Etymology

From fricasser.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.ka.se/

• Audio:

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Noun

fricassée f (plural fricassées)

1. fricassee

Descendants

• → Danish: frikassé
• → English: fricassee
• → German: Frikassee
• → Norwegian Bokmål: frikassé
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: frikassé
• → Polish: frykas
• → Spanish: fricasé

Participle

fricassée f sg

1. feminine singular of fricassé

Further reading

• “fricassée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.