fond
/fɑnd/ noun C2- The background design in lace-making.
- Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables. · He used the fond to make a classic French pan sauce.
- A group of records having shared provenance.
Plural fonds
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She had grown so fond of the big Lion she was glad he had been rescued.
Renée regarded him with fond affection; and certainly his handsome features, lit up as they then were with more than usual fire and animation, seemed formed to excite the innocent admiration with which she gazed on her graceful and intelligent lover.
A WIDOW who was fond of cleaning had two little maidens to wait on her.
A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.
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