Citations:finocha
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English citations of finocha
- 1894, Chemist and Druggist (Benn Brothers), volume 45, page 348
- “Finocha” is presumably an incorrect rendering of the Italian Finochio, a name applied to the sweet fennel of the Azores, Fœniculum dulce azoricum, from which islands it was introduced into Italy, and there cultivated as a “sallad herb.”
- 1894, William White, Notes and Queries (Oxford University Press), volume 90, page 325
- “Finocha” is probably meant for finocchio, the Italian name for fennel (fœniculum).
- 1989, Persuasions (Jane Austen Society of North America), issues 11–14, page 96
- […] the variety of fruits and vegetables that were available to the cook of the time is amazing: all the common ones we have today, as well as finocha, borecole, cardoon, coleworts, rocambole, bugloss and skirret, for example (Raffald, 172–83).