sb. pl. Also 6 frisoles, frysoles, 7 frixoles, frizoles, 9 fricollis. A kind of kidney-bean grown and much used in Mexico. Cf. FASELS.
1577. Frampton, Joyful News, 66 b. I doe sende you … certaine Frisoles, that you maie commaunde to bee sowen in the beginning of Marche.
1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage (1614), 803. Three boyes sate by eating tosted Mais, with sodden Frizoles in a little pan.
1648. Gage, West Ind., xv. 99. A dish of Frixoles … being black and dry Turkey or French beanes boyled with a little biting Chille.
1832. Veg. Subst. Food, 221–2. 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, Bef. Mast, xiv. 35. Living upon beef, hard bread, and frijoles, (a peculiar kind of bean, very abundant in California).
1854. J. L. Stephens, Centr. Amer., 27. He undertook to do the honours, and set before us chocolate, and, what he called the ‘national dish,’ frigoles, or black beans fried.
