Frumenty definition
Hulled wheat boiled in milk and flavored with sugar and spices.
noun
An English dish consisting of hulled wheat boiled in milk, sweetened, and flavored with spice.
noun
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.
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Alternative Forms
Alternative Form of frumenty -
furmity
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
frumenty
Plural:
frumentiesOrigin of frumenty
- Middle English frumente from Old French froumentee from froument grain from Latin frūmentum
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Old French frumentee, from frument (“grain”), from Latin frūmentum.
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