foie gras

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English

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A dish of foie gras at a restaurant in Singapore.

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally fat liver).

Pronunciation

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  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌfwɑː ˈɡɹɑː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌfwɑ ˈɡɹɑ/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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foie gras (countable and uncountable, plural foies gras)

  1. The fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.
    • 1901, The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, 2nd edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune, page 130, columns 1–2:
      Foies Gras are now sold in cans in every large grocery establishment in the United States. [] Bake this paste, and then fill in with the foies gras.
    • 1907, “Poultry”, in A Guide to Modern Cookery, London: William Heinemann Ltd., translation of Le guide culinaire by Auguste Escoffier, section “1726—Foie Gras”, page 547:
      Foies gras are supplied either by geese or ducks.
    • 1948, Town & Country, page 166:
      Many foies gras put up by French canneries aren’t really French at all.
    • 1963, Réalités, section “Louisa Porter’s Comments”, page 87, column 3:
      Fresh duck foies gras are so highly prized in the southwest of France []

Synonyms

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  • foie (shortening) (colloquial)

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French

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A serving of foie gras (on the left) as an appetizer in a restaurant in Avignon, France

Etymology

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From foie (liver) +‎ gras (fat). Literally, fat liver.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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foie gras m (plural foies gras)

  1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

Further reading

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foie gras on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr

Polish

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foie gras

Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈfwa ˈɡra/
  • Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

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foie gras n (indeclinable)

  1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking)
    Synonym: pasztet strasburski

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally fat liver).

Pronunciation

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /fuˌaˈɡɾa/ [fʊˌaˈɡɾa], (faster pronunciation) /ˌfwaˈɡɾa/

  • Rhymes: -a

Noun

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foie gras m (uncountable)

  1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

Spanish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally fat liver).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌfwa ˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwa ˈɣ̞ɾa]

Noun

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foie gras m (uncountable)

  1. foie gras

Usage notes

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According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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