English
financière
Financière comes from French (à la) financière.
- Frenchc. 1600–present(à la) financière
- Englishearliest quotation 1834financière
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–present(à la) financière
- Englishearliest quotation 1834financière
Earliest quotation: 1834, Henderson William Brand, Simpson’s Cookery: “[…] add a good financière ragoût (No. 89) of…”
Every English word from French (à la) financière
Today it means
adj Involving a heavy sauce flavored with truffles, mushrooms and Madeira wine, and garnished with one or more of olives, kidneys, quenelles, sweetbreads, livers, and cockscombs.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French (à la) financière / financière