different between fricassee vs blanquette

English

Etymology

From French fricassée (noun), from fricassée, past participle of fricasser (verb)

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??.k??si/, /f??.k??si?/
  • (UK, also) IPA^(key): /?f??.k??se?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

fricassee (plural fricassees)

1. Meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy.

Translations

Verb

fricassee (third-person singular simple present fricassees, present participle fricasseeing, simple past and past participle fricasseed)

1. (transitive, cooking) To cook meat or poultry in this manner.

Translations

Anagrams

• sfericase

Italian

Noun

fricassee f

1. plural of fricassea

Anagrams

• rifacesse, sfascerei

English

Alternative forms

• blanquet (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French blanquette, from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through Late Latin and Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”).
Compare blanket.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bl???k?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /bl???k?t/, /bl???k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

blanquette (countable and uncountable, plural blanquettes)

1. A white meat stew in which neither the meat nor the sauce is browned.

   Hypernyms: ragout, stew

   Hyponym: blanquette de veau

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Provençal blanqueto, a diminutive of blanc (“white”), derived, through Late Latin and Vulgar Latin *blancus, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- (“to shine”). Equivalent to blanc (“white”) +? -ette (feminine diminutive suffix). Doublet of blanchette.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bl??.k?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

blanquette f (plural blanquettes)

1. (uncountable) A variety of white grapes.

   Synonym: chasselas doré

   Hypernym: raisin

   1. (countable or uncountable) The white sparkling wine produced from this grapevine.

      Hypernyms: vin, vin blanc, vin mousseux

      Hyponym: blanquette de Limoux

2. (countable) A type of summer white pear.

   Hypernym: poire

3. (countable or uncountable) The first clear distillation of a brandy.

   Hypernym: eau-de-vie

4. (countable or uncountable) blanquette (white meat stew which is not browned)

   Hypernym: ragoût

   Hyponyms: blanquette d'agneau, blanquette de veau

5. (uncountable, slang, popular) silverware

   Synonym: argenterie

References

• “blanquette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).