frumenty

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
18
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ˈfɹuːmənti/
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/ˈfɹuːmənti/ · /ˈfɜːmɪti/ · /ˈfɜːməti/ · /ˈfɝmɪti/ · /ˈfɝməti/

Definition of frumenty

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (historical, uncountable, usually)A porridge made by boiling hulled wheat, typically with additional ingredients such as milk, egg yolks, and/or almond milk, traditionally served with venison or porpoise.
    “Frumenty was often the first dish on the menu of a medieval English feast.”
    “Family MS. of the Cunliffes. Quoted by Letitia Elizabeth Landon in the note to her poem, Christmas in the Olden Time, 1650. (1835): 'Their entertainment was, a large hall of curious ashler work, a long table, plenty of furmenty like new milk, in a morning, made of husked wheat, boiled and roasted beef, with a fat goose, and a pudding, with plenty of good beer for dinner.'”

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Etymology

From Middle English furmente, from Old French fourmenté, from furment (“grain”), from Latin frūmentum. Doublet of furmint.

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