Meanings
plural foies gras
- countableuncountableThe fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.
Coordinate term: fatty liver
5 more examples
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.
1901, The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, 2nd edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune, page 130, columns 1–2Foies gras are supplied either by geese or ducks.
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 547Many foies gras put up by French canneries aren’t really French at all.
1948, Town & Country, page 166Fresh duck foies gras are so highly prized in the southwest of France[…]
1963, Réalités, section “Louisa Porter’s Comments”, page 87, column 3For its meat entry, the French team presented a rib steak with barbecued grilled foie gras; fillet of beef with tiny garden vegetables; a three-dimensional angular creation of oxtail and caramelized celery; braised beef cheeks with carrot topiary and a miniature shrub of leeks.
2009 January 28, Elaine Sciolino, “Norway Wins the Bocuse d’Or Competition”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020Synonyms: foie
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchfoie gras
- Englishfoie gras
Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek χήνεια ἥπατα
- χήνεια ἥπατα (khḗneia hḗpata)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Arabic كَبِد دَسَم, فُوَا غْرَا
- كَبِد دَسَم (kabid dasam)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- فُوَا غْرَا (fuwā ḡrā)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- كَبِد إِوَزّ (kabid ʔiwazz)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- كَبِد بَطّ (kabid baṭṭ)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Catalan foie gras
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
Chinese Cantonese 肥肝, 鵝肥肝 /鹅肥肝
- 肥肝 (fei⁴ gon¹)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- 鵝肥肝 /鹅肥肝 (ngo⁴ fei⁴ gon¹)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- 鵝肝 /鹅肝 (ngo⁴ gon¹)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Chinese Mandarin 肥鵝肝 /肥鹅肝, 鵝肝 /鹅肝
- 肥鵝肝 /肥鹅肝 (féi'égān)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- 鵝肝 /鹅肝 (égān)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- 肥鴨肝 /肥鸭肝 (féiyāgān)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- 鴨肝 /鸭肝 (yāgān)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- 肥肝 (féigān)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Dutch foie gras, ganzenlever
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
- ganzenleverfattened liver of geese or ducks
- eendenleverfattened liver of geese or ducks
Esperanto fuagraso, grashepataĵo
- fuagrasofattened liver of geese or ducks
- grashepataĵofattened liver of geese or ducks
Estonian hanemaksa
- hanemaksafattened liver of geese or ducks
Finnish hanhenmaksa
- hanhenmaksafattened liver of geese or ducks
French foie gras
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
German Stopfleber, Foie gras
- Stopfleberfattened liver of geese or ducks
- Foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
- Gänsestopfleberfattened liver of geese or ducks
- Entenstopfleberfattened liver of geese or ducks
Greek φουά γκρα
- φουά γκρα (fouá gkra)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Hebrew כָּבֵד אַוָּז, פוּאָה גְרָא
- כָּבֵד אַוָּז (kavéd aváz)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- פוּאָה גְרָא (fu'á gra)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Hungarian libamáj
- libamájfattened liver of geese or ducks
Italian foie gras, fegato grasso
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
- fegato grassofattened liver of geese or ducks
Japanese フォアグラ, フォワグラ
- フォアグラ (foagura)fattened liver of geese or ducks
- フォワグラ (fowagura)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Korean 푸아그라
- 푸아그라 (puageura)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Latin fīcātum
- fīcātumfattened liver of geese or ducks
Lithuanian žąsų arba ančių kepenėlių paštetas, žąsų kepenėlių paštetas
- žąsų arba ančių kepenėlių paštetasfattened liver of geese or ducks
- žąsų kepenėlių paštetasfattened liver of geese or ducks
Norwegian gåselever
- gåseleverfattened liver of geese or ducks
Persian جگر چرب
- جگر چرب (jegar čarb)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Polish pasztet strasburski, foie gras
- pasztet strasburskifattened liver of geese or ducks
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
Portuguese foie gras
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
Russian фуа̀-гра́
- фуа̀-гра́ (fuà-grá)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Spanish foie gras, fuagrás
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
- fuagrásfattened liver of geese or ducks
Swedish foie gras, gåslever
- foie grasfattened liver of geese or ducks
- gåsleverfattened liver of geese or ducks
- ankleverfattened liver of geese or ducks
Thai ฟัวกรา
- ฟัวกรา (fuua-graa)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Turkish kaz ciğeri
- kaz ciğerifattened liver of geese or ducks
Ukrainian фуа̀-гра́
- фуа̀-гра́ (fuà-hrá)fattened liver of geese or ducks
Vietnamese gan ngỗng béo, gan béo
- gan ngỗng béofattened liver of geese or ducks
- gan béofattened liver of geese or ducks
- gan ngỗng vỗ béofattened liver of geese or ducks
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with foie gras
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