financière
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of financière
< French, short for adv. phrase à la financière in the manner of a financier. Cf. à la mode
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It is also served with a garniture of cauliflowers, financière, Macédoine, and of truffles.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Pierre Blot
It was difficult, at the same time, to justify the expression of an opinion, infinitely too favourable to Peel's commercial policy, yielding to the allurements of a "turban des cailles à la financière."
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
Financière.—Broil the chops, either with or without egg and crumbs, and serve them with a financière garniture.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Pierre Blot
See also Delisle, L'Administration financière des Templiers, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 1889, vol. xxxiii. pt. ii., and Ashley, Economic History, vol. i. pt. ii. p.
From An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
A la financière.—This is a fricassée of chicken served with a financière garniture.
From Hand-Book of Practical Cookery for Ladies and Professional Cooks by Pierre Blot
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