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FORCEMEAT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does forcemeat mean?
• FORCEMEAT (noun)
The noun FORCEMEAT has 1 sense:
1. mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
Familiarity information: FORCEMEAT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
farce; forcemeat
Hypernyms ("forcemeat" is a kind of...):
dressing; stuffing (a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables)
Context examples
I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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