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单词 frumenty
释义

frumenty

/ˈfruːm(ə)nti /
(also furmety)
noun [mass noun] British
An old-fashioned dish consisting of hulled wheat boiled in milk and seasoned with cinnamon and sugar.They served it with frumenty, the wet ancestor of the packeted breakfast cereal, and with an early version of poivrade sauce....
  • Within was a frumenty of beans rich with shreds of dried pig, and made savoury with turnips, cabbages, and onion.
  • The eating of the frumenty is undertaken in silence, no talking until the last person has finished.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French frumentee, from frument, from Latin frumentum 'corn'.

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