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Fricassee

Fricassee \Fric"as*see`\, n. [F. fricass['e]e, fr. fricasser to fry, fricassee; cf. LL. fricare, perh. for frictare, fricare, frictum, to rub. Cf. Fry, Friction.] (Cookery) A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.

Fricassee

Fricassee \Fric"as*see`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fricasseed; p. pr. &. vb. n. Fricasseeing.] To dress like a fricassee.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fricassee

1560s, from Middle French fricassée, noun use of fem. past participle of fricasser "mince and cook in sauce" (15c.), which is of uncertain origin. Perhaps a compound from elements related to or altered by Middle French frire "to fry" (see fry (v.)) and casser, quasser "to break, cut up" (see quash (v.)). As a verb, from 1650s.

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fricassee

n. meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy. vb. (context transitive English) to cook meat or poultry in this manner

WordNet
fricassee
  1. n. pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings

  2. v. make a fricassee of by cooking; "fricassee meats"

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Fricassee

Fricassee or fricassée is a method of cooking meat in which it is cut up, sautéed and braised, and served with its sauce, traditionally a white sauce.

Usage examples of "fricassee".

With that fricassee, prepared with loving care for Cibot and Schmucke, and accompanied by a bottle of beer and a piece of cheese, the old German music-master was quite content.

I wonder if fricassee of liver was the right choice tonight, he asked himself.

Our writers in the past--the wise men who knew--informed us that you had bushy tails somewhere hidden in your garments, and often dined off a fricassee of newborn babes!

The old woman was making a chicken fricassee for dinner in the large fireplace in which hung the iron pot, black with smoke.

On it were four sirloins, six chicken fricassees, stewed veal, three legs of mutton, and in the middle a fine roast suckling pig, flanked by four chitterlings with sorrel.

I was delighted to have seen the famous captain who had conquered Bergen-op-Zoom, but I regretted that such a man should be compelled to give an answer about a fricassee of chickens in the serious tone of a judge pronouncing a sentence of death.

Between them, side dishes were set on the table: pigeons a la Crapaudine, petits pates, a matelot of eels, and a fricassee of chicken.

Lemon Tree, a disk of beef marrow melting into a fricassee of chanterelles, its flavor brightened by a persillade so finely chopped you could barely see it.

One day she persuaded old Lord Wharncliffe, who was a great friend of hers, to send her a basket of guinea-pig, and she entertained a very distinguished company on a fricassee of this unusual game.

Also we have Cuisses de grenouilles la pure d'herbes soupe, fricassee de chanterelles et racines de persil, which are pan-fried frogs' legs in a parsley pure, fricassee of chanterelles and parsley roots.

Between them, side dishes were set on the table: pigeons a la Crapaudine, petits pates, a matelot of eels, and a fricassee of chicken.

At five o'clock Maclaren had made a final visit and departed with the woman who did the cooking, leaving Darwin to dine as best he might on cold goose, oat bread, chicken fricassee, and bread pudding, and to order his thoughts however he chose.

I am sure her Highness would prefer, say, fricassee of pigeon breast in truffle and caper sauce.

He went to it, circled overhead, adjusted his vision, and saw Charming, trussed like a capon, awaiting fricasseeing aux fines herbes while the pony cooked and screamed.

She inspected the simmering of her soup, the stoves on which her fricassees and ragouts were cooking, and the spit on which the joint was roasting, as does a general when surveying his cantonments, judging by a mere glance whether everything was in its right place, and by their very odor, whether the thyme and laurel-leaves were distributed in due proportions in the stewpans.