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cocotte|kəʊˈkɒt|
1. [Fr., orig. child's name for a hen.] A prostitute; one of a class of the demi-monde of Paris.
1867,1885[see cocodette]. 1913Caradoc City of Plain ii, I do wish you would not talk of ladies as if they were cocottes. 1920S. McKenna Lady Lilith ii. 45 Nobody thought the worse of us, if we appeared at the theatre with a notorious cocotte. 1923Contemp. Rev. Mar. 339 The platform at Wiesbaden swarmed with smart Parisian cocottes. 1941‘R. West’ Black Lamb i. 341 Astonished the world by marrying the cocotte La Païva.
2. [Fr., ad. cocasse kind of pot, ult. f. L. cucuma cooking-vessel.] A small fireproof dish used for cooking and serving an individual portion of food; en cocotte, used to designate food thus served.
1907G. A. Escoffier Guide to Mod. Cookery x. 114 The preparations of butcher's meat, of poultry, or game, known as ‘en casserole’ or ‘en cocotte’, are actual poëlings cooked in special earthenware utensils and served in the same. c1938Fortnum & Mason Catal. 64/1 Cocottes—(Single Egg Dishes). 1940A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. II. 19 Cod en Cocotte... Place the slices of crisp pork at the bottom of a cocotte or smallish casserole. 1968M. Sherman Eggs 33 Divide the butter among four little cocottes and put them in a frying pan of hot water about half the depth of the cocottes. |