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fricandel

fricandel is the archaic form of fricandeau.

Meaning of fricandeau

Noun

fricandeau (countable and uncountable, plural fricandeaus or fricandeaux)

  1. Thinly sliced meat, especially veal, fried or stewed with a sauce; a fricassee.
    • There was a course of two soups, two dishes of fish, stewed beef, boiled lamb and spinach, roast mutton, fricandeau of veal, petit pâté—in short, substantial and choice.1794, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 283

Forms of fricandel

pluralfricandels

Questions about fricandel

What is fricandel the archaic form of?
Fricandel is the archaic form of fricandeau.

Words near fricandel in the dictionary

  1. fricadelles
  2. fricadels
  3. fricandeau
  4. fricandeaus
  5. fricandeaux
  6. fricandel
  7. fricandels
  8. fricando
  9. fricandoe
  10. fricandoes
  11. fricandos

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