pâté de foie gras
Americannoun
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pâtés de foie gras
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of pâté de foie gras
1820–30; < French: goose-liver pâté
Example Sentences
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He has thus provided himself with a meal from Fauchon, the Paris caterer: pâté de foie gras and Anatolian figs.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
Wasn't pâté de foie gras made from the livers of geese?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 20, 2013
You mean that a fellow ought not to make pâté de foie gras out of the goose that lays the golden eggs.—Say,
From The Bachelors A Novel by Orcutt, William Dana
Madame la Marquise cannot afford to give her friends pâté de foie gras and hothouse strawberries, and they neither expect to have them nor blame her for not offering them.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 by Various
Chaudfroid of Reed-birds.—Prepare as in last recipe with pâté de foie gras force-meat.
From Choice Cookery by Owen, Catherine
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