Meanings
nounfricandeau (countable and uncountable, plural fricandeaus or fricandeaux)
plural fricandeaus · plural fricandeaux
- countableuncountableThinly sliced meat, especially veal, fried or stewed with a sauce; a fricassee.
There was a course of two soups, two dishes of fish, stewed beef, boiled lamb and spinach, roast mutton, fricandeau of veal, petit pâté—in short, substantial and choice.
1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283
Origin
- Frenchfricandeau
- Englishfricandeau
From French fricandeau. Doublet of fricadelle, frikadelle, and frikkadel.
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