frângão

See also: frangão

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈfɾɐ̃.ɡɐ̃w̃/ [ˈfɾɐ̃.ɡɐ̃ʊ̯̃]
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈfɾɐ̃.ɡɐ̃w̃/

  • Hyphenation: frân‧gão

Noun

frângão m (plural frângãos or frângões)

  1. (archaic) alternative form of frango
    • 1868, Julio Diniz, chapter X, in A. R. da Cruz Coutinho, editor, A morgadinha dos canaviaes‎[1], 3rd edition, volume I, Porto, published 1876, page 149:
      Mas contra tristezas e manias não ha como as folhas de ouro em caldo de frangão com flores de borragem e de herva cidreira.
      But against sorrows and fancies, nothing compares to golden leaves in a broth of chicken with borage blossoms and lemon balm.
    • 1881, Aluísio Azevedo, chapter XI, in O Mulato [The Mulatto]‎[2], 1st edition, Maranhão: Typographia do Paiz, page 293:
      […] uma torta de camarões estalava sua crosta d’ovos; um frangão assado tinha a immobilidade resignada de um paciente […]
      […] a shrimp pie crackled in its egg crust; a roast chicken had the resigned immobility of a patient […]
    • 1890 June, Fialho de Almeida, Os Gatos [The Cats]‎[3], 6th edition, volume 2, Porto: Livraria Clássica Editora, published 1935, page 10:
      Os amigos que contrahira em annos de bohemia, eram como elle, pobres viajores noctambulos das ruas, dormindo pelas escadas, idealisando a que saberia frangão com ervilhas […]
      The friends he had made in his years of bohemia were, like him, poor nocturnal wanderers of the streets, sleeping on stairways, imagining what roast chicken with peas might taste like […]
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