Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Fricassee

Fricassee , noun

[French fricassée, from fricasser to fry, fricassee; compare Late Latin fricare, perh. for frictare, fricare, frictum, to rub. Compare Fry, Friction.]

(Cookery) A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.

Fricassee , transitive verb

To dress like a fricassee.