froise

English

Alternative forms

• fraise

Etymology

From Middle English froise. Compare French froisser (“to bruise”).

Noun

froise (plural froises)

1. A kind of large thick pancake or omelette, often with slices of bacon.
   • 1670, Hannah Woolley, The gentlewomans companion, Pumpion-Pye:

     Take Apples sliced thin round ways, and lay a layer of the Froise, and another of the Apples, with Currans betwixt the layers

References

• “froise”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Fieros, OFries

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

froise

1. genitive singular of fras