foie gras

English

A dish of foie gras at a restaurant in Singapore.

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally fat liver).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌfwɑː ˈɡɹɑː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌfwɑ ˈɡɹɑ/
  • (file)

Noun

foie gras (countable and uncountable, plural foies gras)

  1. 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)

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French

A serving of foie gras (on the left) as an appetizer in a restaurant in Avignon, France

Etymology

From foie (liver) + gras (fat). Literally, fat liver.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fwa ɡʁa/, /fwa ɡʁɑ/
  • (file)

Noun

foie gras m (plural foies gras)

  1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

Further reading

foie gras on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr

Polish

foie gras

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfwa ˈɡra/

Noun

foie gras n (indeclinable)

  1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks, used for gourmet cooking)
    Synonym: pasztet strasburski

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally fat liver).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /fuˌaˈɡɾa/ [fʊˌaˈɡɾa], (faster pronunciation) /ˌfwaˈɡɾa/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌfwaˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwaˈɣɾa]

  • Rhymes: -a

Noun

foie gras m (uncountable)

  1. foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally fat liver).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌfwa ˈɡɾa/ [ˌfwa ˈɣ̞ɾa]

Noun

foie gras m (uncountable)

  1. foie gras

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.

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