fricace

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noun

Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.

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Meanings

nounfricace (plural fricaces)

plural fricaces

  1. obsoleteMeat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.

    dispatch your soop, cotelets, ragous, fricaces, amlets, deserts

    a. 1687, George Villiers, The Country Gentleman
  2. obsoleteAn unguent, or the act of rubbing with an unguent.

    Applying onely a warme napkin to the place, after the vnction, and fricace.

    1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page)

Origin

See fricassee.

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