froise
English
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle English froise. Compare French froisser (“to bruise”).
Noun
editfroise (plural froises)
- A kind of large thick pancake or omelette, often with slices of bacon.
- 1670, Hannah Woolley, The gentlewomans companion, Pumpion-Pye:
- Take Apples sliced thin round ways, and lay a layer of the Froise, and another of the Apples, with Currans betwixt the layers
References
edit- “froise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editScottish Gaelic
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