Obs. [a. F. friandise, f. friand dainty.]
1. Something dainty to the taste, a delicacy.
1483. Caxton, G. de la Tour, B vij. She made for them dayly dysshes of sowpes, and after gaf to them flesshe and other fryandyses delycyous.
2. Daintiness, fondness for delicate fare.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, III. xiii. (1632), 620. Whosoever remooveth from a child a certaine particular or obstinate affection to browne bread, to bakon, or to garlike, taketh friandize from him.
1604. E. G[rimston], trans. Acosta’s Nat. & Mor. Hist. Indies, IV. xvi. 255. They have invented at the Indies (for friandise and pleasure) a certaine kinde of paste, they doe make of this flowe mixt with sugar, which they call biscuits and mellinders.
