English edit

Etymology edit

See fricassee.

Noun edit

fricace (plural fricaces)

  1. (obsolete) Meat sliced and dressed with strong sauce.
    • a. 1687, George Villiers, The Country Gentleman:
      dispatch your soop, cotelets, ragous, fricaces, amlets, deserts
  2. (obsolete) An unguent.
  3. (obsolete) The act of rubbing with an unguent.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fricace”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)