frumenty
UK/ˈfɹuːmənti/US/ˈfɹuːmənti/
frumenty noun: a porridge made by boiling hulled wheat, typically with additional ingredients such as milk, egg yolks, and/or almond milk, traditionally served with venison or porpoise.
Noun
frumenty (usually uncountable, plural frumenties)
- A porridge made by boiling hulled wheat, typically with additional ingredients such as milk, egg yolks, and/or almond milk, traditionally served with venison or porpoise.
- Frumenty was often the first dish on the menu of a medieval English feast.
- Family MS. of the Cunliffes. Quoted by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in the note to her poem, Christmas in the Olden Time, 1650. (1835): 'Their entertainment was, a large hall of curious ashler work, a long table, plenty of furmenty like new milk, in a morning, made of husked wheat, boiled and roasted...
Forms of frumenty
| plural | frumenties |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fermenty |
| alternative form | firmity |
| alternative form | fromenty |
| alternative form | frumerty |
| alternative form | furmenty |
| alternative form | furmety |
| alternative form | furmity |
Origin of frumenty
From Middle English furmente, from Old French fourmenté, from furment (“grain”), from Latin frūmentum. Doublet of furmint.
Questions about frumenty
- What does frumenty mean?
- Frumenty means a porridge made by boiling hulled wheat, typically with additional ingredients such as milk, egg yolks, and/or almond milk, traditionally served with venison or porpoise.
- What part of speech is frumenty?
- Frumenty is a noun.
- How do you pronounce frumenty?
- Frumenty is pronounced /ˈfɹuːmənti/ (UK).
- What is the plural of frumenty?
- The plural of frumenty is frumenties.
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