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financière

financière adjective: involving a heavy sauce flavored with truffles, mushrooms and Madeira wine, and garnished with one or more of olives, kidneys, quenelles, sweetbreads, livers, and cockscombs.

Adjective

financière (not comparable)

  1. Involving a heavy sauce flavored with truffles, mushrooms and Madeira wine, and garnished with one or more of olives, kidneys, quenelles, sweetbreads, livers, and cockscombs.
    • […] add a good financière ragoût (No. 89) of cocks’ combs, fat livers, truffles, and some mushrooms; […]1834, Henderson William Brand, Simpson’s Cookery, Improved and Modernised. The Complete Modern Cook, Containing a Very Extensive and Original Collection of Recipes in Cookery, […]., London: Baldwin...
    • Fill six vol-au-vents made with feuilletage paste (No. 1076) with a quart of financière garnishing (No. 246), and serve them on a dish with a folded napkin.1889, Alessandro Filippini, The Table: How to Buy Food, How to Cook It, and How to Serve It, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Company, page 271

Origin of financière

From French (à la) financière, literally, in the manner of a financier, a reference to the expense of the ingredients.

Questions about financière

What does financière mean?
Financière means involving a heavy sauce flavored with truffles, mushrooms and Madeira wine, and garnished with one or more of olives, kidneys, quenelles, sweetbreads, livers, and cockscombs.
What part of speech is financière?
Financière is an adjective.

Words near financière in the dictionary

  1. financiery
  2. financing
  3. financings
  4. financist
  5. financists
  6. financière
  7. financy
  8. finangle
  9. finangled
  10. finangles
  11. finangling

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