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foie gras definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a pate made from goose liver (marinated in Cognac) and truffles [syn: foie gras, pate de foie gras]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: French, literally, fat liver Date: 1818 the fatted liver of an animal and especially of a goose usually served as a pâté

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. colloq. = pâté de foie gras.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Foie gras is a food made from the livers of geese that were specially fed so that their livers became very large.