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fricandoe

fricandoe is the obsolete 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 fricandoe

pluralfricandoes

Questions about fricandoe

What is fricandoe the obsolete form of?
Fricandoe is the obsolete form of fricandeau.

Words near fricandoe in the dictionary

  1. fricandeaus
  2. fricandeaux
  3. fricandel
  4. fricandels
  5. fricando
  6. fricandoe
  7. fricandoes
  8. fricandos
  9. Fricano
  10. Fricanos
  11. fricassee

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