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fricace

fricace noun: meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.

Noun

fricace (plural fricaces)

  1. (obsolete) Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
    • dispatch your soop, cotelets, ragous, fricaces, amlets, desertsa. 1687, George Villiers, The Country Gentleman
  2. (obsolete) An unguent, or the act of rubbing with an unguent.
    • Applying onely a warme napkin to the place, after the vnction, and fricace.1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page)

Forms of fricace

pluralfricaces

Origin of fricace

See fricassee.

Questions about fricace

What does fricace mean?
Fricace means meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
What part of speech is fricace?
Fricace is a noun.
What is the plural of fricace?
The plural of fricace is fricaces.

Words near fricace in the dictionary

  1. frible
  2. friborg
  3. friborgs
  4. Fribourg
  5. fribs
  6. fricace
  7. fricaces
  8. fricadel
  9. fricadelle
  10. fricadelles
  11. fricadels

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