foie

foie (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) foie gras
   • 2005, Los Angeles Magazine (volume 50, number 5, page 159)

     Everything's even better than it sounds: endive, watercress, and aged Stilton salad, frog legs amandine with celeriac puree, buffalo foie burger with truffle fries on a brioche bun, campfire trout.

   • 2006, Chuck Johnson, ‎Blanche Johnson, Savor Idaho Cookbook

     Season the foie and sear until dark golden brown. Drain off and reserve the foie, adding the fat back into the pan and bring heat back up.

From Old French foie, feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”).

• IPA^(key): /fwa/

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• Rhymes: -a
• Homophones: foi, foies, fois
• Hyphenation: foie

foie m (plural foies)

1. liver (anatomy, food)

• avoir les foies
• foie gras
• huile de foie de morue

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

foie f

1. plural of foia

• feie

From earlier feie, from Late Latin fīcātum (“liver”), from Latin iecur fīcātum (“fig-stuffed liver”).

foie m (oblique plural foies, nominative singular foies, nominative plural foie)

1. liver

• French: foie
• Norman: faie

foie m (plural foies)

1. foie gras