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- noun Same as
frumenty .
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- noun
frumenty
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Examples
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Tom had remained in the trap a whole week, when he was sent for by King Arthur, who pardoned him for throwing down the furmenty, and took him again into favor.
The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! Henry [Editor] Altemus
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The cook, who was an ill-natured fellow, being in a terrible rage at Tom for frightening and scalding him with the furmenty, went straight to the king, and said that Tom had jumped into the royal furmenty, and thrown it down out of mere mischief.
The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! Henry [Editor] Altemus
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As Tom's clothes had suffered much in the batter-pudding, the furmenty, and the insides of the giant, miller, and fishes, his majesty ordered him a new suit of clothes, and to be mounted as a knight.
The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! Henry [Editor] Altemus
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Just at the time when Tom came flying across the courtyard, the cook happened to be passing with the king's great bowl of furmenty, which was
The History of Tom Thumb to which are added the stories of the Cat and the Mouse and Fire! Fire! Burn stick! Henry [Editor] Altemus
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But just as Tom should have alighted in the courtyard of the palace, the cook happened to pass along with the king's great bowl of furmenty (King Arthur loved furmenty), and poor Tom Thumb fell plump into the middle of it and splashed the hot furmenty into the cook's eyes.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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"Murder! murder!" bellowed the cook; and away poured the king's nice furmenty into the kennel.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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When the king sent for him, he forgave him for throwing down the furmenty, ordered him new clothes, and knighted him.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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At Christmas Cornish folk eat giblet-pie, and Yorkshiremen enjoy furmenty; and mistletoe and the kissing-bush are still hung in the hall; and in some remote parts of Cornwall children may be seen dancing round painted lighted candles placed in a box of sand.
Vanishing England 1892
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But just as Tom should have alighted in the courtyard of the palace, the cook happened to pass along with the king's great bowl of furmenty (King Arthur loved furmenty), and poor Tom Thumb fell plump into the middle of it, and splashed the hot furmenty into the cook's eyes.
The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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The cook resolving to keep him safely this time, as he had so lately given him the slip, clapped him into a mouse-trap, and left him to amuse himself by peeping through the wires for a whole week; when the king sent for him, he forgave him for throwing down the furmenty, ordered him new clothes, and knighted him: --
The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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frumenty
November 22, 2010
Gammerstang commented on the word furmenty
(noun) - A thick pottage made of whole wheat hulled, steeped, and boiled in milk.
--Thomas Dyche's New General English Dictionary, 1740
January 19, 2018