fricassee

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun pieces of chicken or other meat stewed in gravy with e.g. carrots and onions and served with noodles or dumplings
verb make a fricassee of by cooking

From French fricassée (noun), from fricassée, past participle of fricasser (verb).

For all his fork's fastidious action, it managed to pick the best of a Fricassee. — The Passionate Elopement, Compton MacKenzie
"The reason," said the man, "is only this, that they have placed a fricassee before me, and I eat no fricassees." — Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers, Unknown
The old woman was making a chicken fricassee for dinner in the large fireplace in which hung the iron pot, black with smoke. — Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant, Guy de Maupassant

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