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‖ croquette|krəʊˈkɛt| Also 8 croquet. [F., f. croquer to crackle under the teeth, to crunch.] A ball or mass of rice, potato, or finely minced meat or fish, seasoned and fried crisp.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), In Cookery, Croquets are a certain Compound made of delicious Stuff'd Meat, some of the bigness of an Egg, and others of a Walnut. 1869J. Grant Secret Disp. 161 A dinner of shee (which is identically Scotch broth), croquettes, with purée of beet-root. 1883Harper's Mag. Apr. 654/1 Croquettes of canned salmon. |