frijolesn.
With plural agreement. A kind of kidney bean grown and much used in Mexico. Cf. fasels n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > kidney beans or kidney bean plants
French bean1542
kidney bean1548
fasels1562
frijoles1568
Welsh bean1585
longbean1587
cock stone1631
haricot1653
string-bean1759
snap-bean1770
bunch-bean1787
butter bean1820
bush-bean1821
snaps1845
navy bean1851
cannellini1862
flageolet1877
wax bean1905
pinto bean1913
wax-pod bean1921
borlotti1932
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > kidney beans
kidney bean1548
fasels1562
frijoles1568
Welsh bean1585
longbean1587
haricot1653
string-bean1759
snapc1770
butter bean1820
snap-bean1870
flageolet1877
sieva1888
pinto bean1913
pinto1918
borlotti1932
soldier bean1968
1568 P. de Osma Let. 16 Dec. in J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes (1577) ii. f. 66v I doe sende you..certaine Frisoles, that you maie commaunde to bee sowen in the beginning of Marche.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 803 Three boyes sate by eating tosted Mais, with sodden Frizoles in a little pan.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xv. 99 A dish of Frixoles..being black and dry Turkey or French beanes boyled with a little biting Chille.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 222 The small black beans called fricollis, which are in general demand all over Mexico, are no doubt a kind of kidney-bean.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiv. 35 Living upon beef, hard bread, and frijoles, (a peculiar kind of bean, very abundant in California).
1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. 27 He..set before us chocolate and what he called the national dish, frijoles, or black beans fried.
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