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GRAS

abbr.
generally recognized as safe (US Food and Drug Administration label)
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GRAS

(græs)
generally recognized as safe: a status label assigned by the FDA to a listing of substances (GRAS′ list`) not known to be hazardous to health.
[1970–75]
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Translations
gras
References in classic literature ?
This consists of a simple gros de laine, trimmed with ashes of roses, with overskirt of scare bleu ventre saint gris, cut bias on the off-side, with facings of petit polonaise and narrow insertions of pa^te de foie gras backstitched to the mise en sce`ne in the form of a jeu d'esprit.
Philip asked Lawson and Hayward to come and see his new rooms, and they came, one with a bottle of whiskey, the other with a pate de foie gras; and he was delighted when they praised his taste.
When he is well his appetite is truly wonderful--nothing comes amiss to him, sir, from pate de foie gras to potatoes.
At a grand diplomatic dinner given by his chief, he had started up and declared that a pate de foie gras was poisoned.
And even then I didn't know whom I had there, opposite me, busy now devouring a slice of pate de foie gras. Not in the least.
It was lucky that some tins of fine preserves were stowed in a locker in my stateroom; hard bread I could always get hold of; and so he lived on stewed chicken, PATE DE FOIE GRAS, aspara- gus, cooked oysters, sardines--on all sorts of abominable sham delicacies out of tins.
There were a couple of brace of cold woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of ancient and cobwebby bottles.
The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below.
If you don't want to use foie gras, you can buy a tin of pate de foie gras.
New information that researchers have just revealed about Niepce's "View from the Window at Le Gras" bodes well for their uncovering the secrets behind other early photographs.
DON'T BRIAN The Cardiff beauty whose new album has been delayed until next year, also treated the Mardi Gras crowd to a duet with close friend and former Hear'Say singer Noel Sullivan (both above).
The keel for the project was laid at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland, with Mardi Gras due to enter service in August 2020.