foie gras
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).
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Noun edit
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 edit
- foie (shortening) (colloquial)
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French edit
Etymology edit
From foie (“liver”) + gras (“fat”). Literally, “fat liver”.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
foie gras m (plural foies gras)
- foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)
Further reading edit
foie gras on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -a
Noun edit
foie gras m (uncountable)
- foie gras (fattened liver of geese or ducks)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French foie gras (literally “fat liver”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
foie gras m (uncountable)
Usage notes edit
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 edit
- “foie gras”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014