Pronounced: PAR-boil, verb
Notes: Cooks will know this word; it has an interesting history
Yesterday’s word
The word frangible means “easily broken; fragile and delicate”
First usage
This word came into English in the late 1300s or early 1400s
Background / Comments
Our word came into late Middle English from Old French, and into Old French as a derivative of the Latin word frangere (to break)
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