fromage
/fɹəˈmɑːʒ/
fromage noun: synonym of cheese.
Noun
fromage (countable and uncountable, plural fromages)
- Synonym of cheese.
- It will be necessary to premise, that there is but little difference in the manner of making fromages; they only vary in the taste; so that, by recurring to this number, it will be impossible ever to commit a mistake.[…]Continue to whip it over ice, till you perceive that the isinglass is well...1836, Louis Eustache Ude, “Fromages or Cheeses, or Iced Bavarian Cheeses”, in The French Cook, a System of Fashionable and Economical Cookery, Adapted to the Use of English Families, 13th edition...
- How cheerful and contented they were in the Bow over the meals which Mrs. Crichton viewed with such pity and contempt,—the bouilli, the salad, the fragrant coffee finely concocted, the home-made bread, the thick preserves, the fromage still of goats’ milk.1860, [Henrietta Keddie], “Lady Somerville’s Maidens”, in Norman Macleod, editor, Good Words for 1860, London: Alexander Strahan and Co., […], part III, page 490, column 2
- Synonyms:
- cheese
Examples of fromage in a sentence
- B.—Fromages require but very little isinglass.[…]The author here closes the list of creams and fromages, although their number is immense.1836, Louis Eustache Ude, “Fromages or Cheeses, or Iced Bavarian Cheeses”, in The French Cook, a System of Fashionable and Economical...
- He went straight through the bill of fare, omitting nothing, not even the fromage, which disagreed with him generally,[…]1897, National Magazine, page 371, column 1:
- First-rate fromage / Author [Steven Jenkins] on mission to inform public about ‘real’ cheese1997 March 20, Tamara Browning, “First-rate fromage”, in The Times, Munster, Ind., page C-5:
- They offered me all the fromage I could eat, but I never dreamed I’d get the chance to work with my favorite funny human, Nathan Lane.2001, Betty Jo Tucker, Confessions of a Movie Addict, Hats Off Books, →ISBN, page 39:
Synonyms of fromage
Forms of fromage
| plural | fromages |
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Origin of fromage
Borrowed from French fromage.
Phrases with fromage
Questions about fromage
- What does fromage mean?
- Fromage means synonym of cheese.
- How do you use fromage in a sentence?
- B.—Fromages require but very little isinglass.[…]The author here closes the list of creams and fromages, although their number is immense.
- What part of speech is fromage?
- Fromage is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fromage?
- Fromage is pronounced /fɹəˈmɑːʒ/.
- What is the plural of fromage?
- The plural of fromage is fromages.
Words near fromage in the dictionary
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