Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A flat, often leaf-shaped bread from Provence flavored with olive oil and topped with herbs, onions, or other items.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as fougade.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A type of lattice-shaped bread associated with the area of Provence.
  • noun An old-fashioned type of land mine, in the form of a foxhole filled with explosives or projectiles.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Provençal fogatza, fogasa, hearth-cake, from Vulgar Latin *focācia, from Late Latin, feminine of focācius, of the hearth; see focaccia.]

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Examples

  • To make French bâtards or anadama, breads of rye or spelt, fougasse with olives and semolina, they need flour, and for flour, they need wheat.

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • And for those who feel the need to defend their perimeter with fougasse, the Army Chemical Corps expedient recipe for improvised napalm is to mix powdered laundry detergent with gasoline until it has a consistency like applesauce.

    A Gunpowder Plot At The History Channel? 2007

  • In the 5th, I sometimes have a summer lunch that involves pain fougasse aux olives from this nice lady at the Place Maubert market.

    Movin' on up, to the Rive Droite 2006

  • In the 5th, I sometimes have a summer lunch that involves pain fougasse aux olives from this nice lady at the Place Maubert market.

    La Coquette: 2006

  • The bakery serendipitously encountered on the road from Sebastopol to Bodega Bay with a wood oven, a cadre of jolly dyke bakers, and the most amazing fougasse

    California Dreaming No More Becca 2005

  • Here's the fougasse (the larger loaf) and some cheese bread (top photo), followed by the bag of bread from yesterday, though a couple of the baguettes are missing, as are two of the cranberry-pecans.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Emma Goldman 2005

  • We've been baking bread this week--brioche, puff pastry, croissant dough used for Danishes, fermented breads, breads made with sourdough starters, cranberry-pecan bread, baguettes, fougasse--you name it, we've made it, or we will be making it within a day or two.

    Bags O Bread Emma Goldman 2005

  • We've been baking bread this week--brioche, puff pastry, croissant dough used for Danishes, fermented breads, breads made with sourdough starters, cranberry-pecan bread, baguettes, fougasse--you name it, we've made it, or we will be making it within a day or two.

    Archive 2005-11-01 Emma Goldman 2005

  • Here's the fougasse (the larger loaf) and some cheese bread (top photo), followed by the bag of bread from yesterday, though a couple of the baguettes are missing, as are two of the cranberry-pecans.

    Bags O Bread Emma Goldman 2005

  • The bakery serendipitously encountered on the road from Sebastopol to Bodega Bay with a wood oven, a cadre of jolly dyke bakers, and the most amazing fougasse

    Archive 2005-03-01 Becca 2005

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  • French version of the Italian focaccia.

    November 27, 2007

  • also an improvised sort of landmine, used for many centuries, also in WW1; whence the pen name of a British cartoonist who fought in that war.

    November 27, 2007