Meanings
plural fryingpans
- alternativeAlternative form of frying pan.
Buy half a sheep's liver ; cut it into thin slices ; place it, with a bit of butter or dripping, in the fryingpan over a moderate fire, with two onions and two shallots sliced up fine.
1872, The Food Journal, volume 2, page 941 more example
One of them, and he was the principal personage, was holding a fryingpan by its long handle; and in the fryingpan were lamp-wicks, which were called in the patois of the country farets.
1880, Jean Henri Merle d'Aubigné, History of the Reformation in Europe in the Time of Calvin, volume 6, page 413
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