fricassée

plural fricassées

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of fricassee.

   “We have nothing but some Barbacue soused in wine in the Spanish fashion, and a few fricassées, or so.”

   1858, George W[alter] Thornbury, Every Man His Own Trumpeter, volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], page 164

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   With a quick sweep of my eye, I see fricassées, steamed bass and poached salmon, roast snipe, peacock, teal, mallard and quail, game pies and carbonados, tarts of marrowbone, neats' tongues, venison pasties, baked guinea fowl, compound salads, dishes of cream, quinces, comfits and marzipans, preserves, cheeses and fruits.

   1989, Rose Tremain, “Wedding Games”, in Restoration: A Novel, London: Hamish Hamilton, →ISBN; republished London: Random House, 2010, →ISBN

   He went to the royal quarters and found the King sitting on the floor with a dish of fricassées from which he was feeding his dogs, making them take their turns checked by a small stick he was holding.

   2000, David Fraser, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 245

present singular third person fricassées · participle present fricasséeing · participle past fricasséed · past fricasséed

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of fricassee.

   To Fricassée Cold Beef.

   1862, Margaret Dods [pseudonym; Christian Isobel Johnstone], The Cook and Housewife’s Manual: A Practical System of Modern Domestic Cookery and Family Management; […], 11th edition, Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, […]; London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., page 292

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   The hind quarters may be fricaséed, ragoûted, or done in a timbale or casserole, with any of the fine herb seasoning, and served as a first-course dish; […]

   1827, a Lady, Domestic Economy, and Cookery, for Rich and Poor; Containing an Account of the Best English, Scotch, French, Oriental, and Other Foreign Dishes; […], London: […] Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], page 414

   “Frogs were killed and as conscientiously fricasséed à la mode de Paris when we had learnt all other lessons from them.”

   1995, Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Voyaging, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 105

   That got me a wordless glare that would’ve fricasséed a squid.

   2005, David Wishart, Food for the Fishes, Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN

   Then, against the wall, there were gridirons big enough for burning martyrs, saucepans in which a whole sheep could be fricasséed, a monumental plate-warmer, a marble basin filled with a continual trickle of water.

   2008, Émile Zola, translated by April Fitzlyon, Ladies’ Delight, Oneworld Classics, →ISBN, page 281

   I didn’t know it at the time, but I was fricasséeing.

   2017, Miles Jupp, Egg & Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir, Headline Publishing Group, →ISBN