poiverade
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French poivrade, probably after Old Occitan pebrada. Compare peverade.
Noun[edit]
poiverade (uncountable)
- Misspelling of poivrade.
- 1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 80:
- ‘Why, Sir, we had for dinner some soals—the finest I ever saw, but they were fried in bad lard; and then, Sir, for the partridges, there was neither game gravy, nor poiverade, nor even bread sauce.’