Finochio

Quick meaning: Finochio is a noun meaning Alternative spelling of finocchio.

Meaning

Alternative spelling of finocchio.

Example Sentences

Finochio, or French fennel; for soups, sallads, &c. when the bottom part is blanched, by earthing up.

What’s the matter with you? Is this how you turned out? A Hollywood finochio that cries like a woman?

Finochio is a ſort of dwarf fennel, very aromatic; the thick ſtalks of which, earthed up, when nearly full grown, five or ſix inches to blanch, are uſed in ſoups and ſallads, or ſliced, and eat alone with oil, vinegar, &c.

If it ſeems ſo ſtrange to ye, I would not have you reſt ſatisfied with my bare word for it. Let us begin to examine at home, and you will find amongſt us ſerpents, that each of the kind, as ſoon as awaken’d by the ſpring, perceiving his ſkin ſtarky and rivelled, by lying the whole winter folded up in one poſition, makes directly to the finochio, and crams himſelf with it, till it makes him with eaſe caſt his old ſlough.

Word Forms

• finochi

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include finochie, finocha, finnocchio, fennocchio, finnochia, fenochio.

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