GRAS

[ gras ]

1. 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 and thus approved for use in foods.

Word History and Origins

Origin of GRAS¹

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

That is the sense of the Saturnalia, of Mardi Gras and of these moments of entertainment.

From The Daily Beast

When the host is in a festive mood, entering customers are given strings of Mardi Gras beads.

From The Daily Beast

Larry Bannock was the chief of a Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans.

From The Daily Beast

When he died, all the black Mardi Gras Indians came out and kissed the ground in front of his house.

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He started a group called the Hawkettes, which in 1954 recorded "Mardi Gras Mambo," a song still popular around New Orleans.

From The Daily Beast

Our subject being Mistral and not Félix Gras, a passing mention must suffice.

From Project Gutenberg

Afraid he got poisoned with some foie gras he ate—jolly good tack I call it—I'll have some more, please.

From Project Gutenberg

Bone two dozen larks, season, and put into each a piece of pt de foie gras (truffled).

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Take a dozen larks, bone and stuff them with pt de foie gras, and make them as nearly as possible of the same size and shape.

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Take out the trail, and add to it either three fowl livers or their equivalent in pt de foie gras.

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