frenched

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of french.

   The butcher frenched the rack of lamb, scraping the bones clean.

   She frenched the green beans into thin slivers before steaming them.

   Note

   One spelling does two grammatical jobs: past tense in she frenched the beans, past participle in the beans were frenched. Context tells you which verb is meant, because french covers two kinds of kitchen work, cutting food into strips and trimming meat off a bone. It also means kissing with the tongue, with or without an object. The lowercase spelling is the same word as the capitalized one, as with the trimmed-meat adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Alternative form of Frenched.

   The frenched chops browned beautifully under the broiler.

   He served a frenched rack of lamb at the dinner party.

   Note

   A butcher's word for meat whose bone has been scraped clean so it stands out from the cut. This is the French-trimmed look of a rack of lamb or a chop. With a small f it is the same word as capitalized Frenched, so either spelling is correct. It goes before the noun (a frenched rack, frenched chops). Don't confuse it with the past-tense verb, which can also mean cut into strips.

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