fricassee

plural fricassees · alternative fricassée

1. Meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy.

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   I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.

   1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal

present singular third person fricassees · participle present fricasseeing · participle past fricasseed · past fricasseed · alternative fricassée

1. transitivecookingTo cook meat or poultry in this manner.

   Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]

   1999, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1999, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 16