fond

Less common meanings

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   browned bitsnoununcountable

   The brown bits left stuck in a pan after cooking meat or vegetables.

   Scrape the fond from the bottom of the pan to make gravy.

   All that brown fond adds deep flavor to the sauce.

   UsageCooks scrape up the fond to make a sauce.

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   adjective

   Hopeful in a silly way. Used of a wish or belief that probably won't come true.

   She had a fond hope that her old friend would call on her birthday.

   He waited in the fond belief that house prices would soon fall.

   UsageSay in the fond hope that something will happen.

   Similarnaive, foolish, vain, unrealistic

   Oppositerealistic

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   nounobsolete

   A supply of money or goods kept for later use.

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   verbobsolete

   To love someone in a foolish, doting way.

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   verbobsolete

   To touch or stroke someone in a loving way.

   The Tyrian hugs and fonds thee on her breast.

   1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”Here, fonds means strokes or touches in a loving way.

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   nounobsolete

   The base or bottom that something is built on.
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    nounrare

    A set of records that all come from the same source.
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    noun

    The background pattern in a piece of lace.