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finochio

English

Noun

finochio (plural finochi)

  1. Alternative spelling of finocchio
    • 1744, John Bapti?t Gelli [aut.] and an unknown translator, Circe (James Bettenham), pages 50–51
      If it ?eems ?o ?trange to ye, I would not have you re?t ?atisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find among?t us ?erpents, that each of the kind, as ?oon as awaken’d by the ?pring, perceiving his ?kin ?tarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one po?ition, makes directly to the finochio, and crams him?elf with it, till it makes him with ea?e ca?t his old ?lough.
    • 1767, Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie, Every Man His Own Gardener (19th ed., 1809), page 658
      Finochio, or French fennel; for soups, sallads, &c. when the bottom part is blanched, by earthing up.
    • 1796, Charles Mar?hall, An Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of Gardening (2nd ed., 1798, John Rider), page 256
      Finochio is a ?ort of dwarf fennel, very aromatic; the thick ?talks of which, earthed up, when nearly full grown, five or ?ix inches to blanch, are u?ed in ?oups and ?allads, or ?liced, and eat alone with oil, vinegar, &c.
    • 2008, Nancy Frey and Douglas Fisher, Teaching Visual Literacy, page 153
      What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finochio that cries like a woman?

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finochia

English

Noun

finochia (plural not attested)

  1. Archaic spelling of finocchio.
    • 1841, The Farm and the Garden (T.M. Cradock), page 55:
      The Sweet fennel — Fœniculum dulce — comes from Syria and the Azores; this is probably the kind mentioned by French authors; it is cultivated in Italy as a salad herb, under the name of Finochia, and is sometimes grown in England; but it soon degenerates here into the common fennel, and the seed requires to be annually obtained from Italy; when blanched like celery it is very tender and crisp.
    • 1950, Athene: The American Magazine of Hellenic Thought (Athene Enterprises, Inc.), volumes 11–12, page 36:
      No celery with the appetizer array, finochia instead, the Greeks favor its flavor — definitely anise.

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