finochio

plural finochi

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of finocchio.

   Finochio, or French fennel; for soups, sallads, &c. when the bottom part is blanched, by earthing up.

   1767, Thomas Mawe, John Abercrombie, Every Man His Own Gardener, 19th edition, published 1809, page 658

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   If it ſeems ſo ſtrange to ye, I would not have you reſt ſatisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find amongſt us ſerpents, that each of the kind, as ſoon as awaken’d by the ſpring, perceiving his ſkin ſtarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one poſition, makes directly to the finochio, and crams himſelf with it, till it makes him with eaſe caſt his old ſlough.

   1744, John Baptiſt Gelli [aut.] and an unknown translator, Circe (James Bettenham), pages 50–51

   Finochio is a ſort of dwarf fennel, very aromatic; the thick ſtalks of which, earthed up, when nearly full grown, five or ſix inches to blanch, are uſed in ſoups and ſallads, or ſliced, and eat alone with oil, vinegar, &c.

   1796, Charles Marſhall, An Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening (2nd ed., 1798, John Rider), page 256

   What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finochio that cries like a woman?

   2008, Nancy Frey, Douglas Fisher, Teaching Visual Literacy, page 153