foie gras


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foie gras

 (fwä grä′)
n. pl. foie gras
The fattened liver of a force-fed goose or sometimes duck, usually served sliced or as a pâté.

[French : foie, liver (from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *ficatum, alteration of Latin fīcātum, liver of an animal fattened on figs, from fīcus, fig) + gras, fat, fatty (from Old French, from Latin crassus, thick, fat).]
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foie gras

(French fwa ɡrɑ)
n
(Cookery) See pâté de foie gras
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foie gras

(fwɑ ˈgrɑ)
n.
the liver of specially fattened geese or ducks, esp. in the form of a pâté.
[1810–20; < French: literally, fat liver]
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foie gras

The preserved livers of specially fattened ducks or geese.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.foie gras - a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles
pate - liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned
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Translations
Foie GrasGänsestopfleber
hanhenmaksa
foie gras
フォアグラ
gåselever

foie gras

[ˌfwɑːˈgrɑː] nfoie m gras
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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.
BY BEN GLAZE COUNTDOWN stars Rachel Riley and Susie Dent are today backing a ban on foie gras.
Initially, I didn't want to try to the pass arounds, thinking foie gras is foie gras is foie gras.
The hot and cold foie gras education I had was in a restaurant called Tri Coleur, one of the best restaurants I had been to in Paris or Brussels.
HEADS up, foie gras gourmands, the pate party is over -- as it should be.