foie gras
English
Noun
foie gras (countable and uncountable, plural foies gras)
- The fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking.
- 1901, The Picayune’s Creole Cook Book, 2nd edition, New Orleans, La.: The Picayune, page 130, columns 1–2:
- Foies Gras are now sold in cans in every large grocery establishment in the United States. […] Bake this paste, and then fill in with the foies gras.
- 1907, “Poultry”, in A Guide to Modern Cookery, London: William Heinemann Ltd., translation of Le guide culinaire by Auguste Escoffier, section “1726—Foie Gras”, page 547:
- Foies gras are supplied either by geese or ducks.
- 1948, Town & Country, page 166:
- Many foies gras put up by French canneries aren’t really French at all.
- 1963, Réalités, section “Louisa Porter’s Comments”, page 87, column 3:
- Fresh duck foies gras are so highly prized in the southwest of France […]
Synonyms
- foie (shortening) (colloquial)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
fattened liver of geese or ducks
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See also
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fwa ɡʁa/, /fwa ɡʁɑ/
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Further reading
foie gras on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfwa ˈɡra/
Noun
- foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking)
- Synonym: pasztet strasburski
Further reading
- foie gras in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌfwa ˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwa ˈɣ̞ɾa]
Usage notes
According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Further reading
- “foie gras”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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