chocolaten.adj.
/ˈtʃɒk(ə)lət/, U.S. /ˈtʃɔk(ə)lət/, /ˈtʃɑk(ə)lət/ A. n.
1. A hot drink made by mixing prepared chocolate (sense A. 2a) or cocoa with water or milk (and sometimes other ingredients); = hot chocolate n. at hot adj. and n.1 Compounds 3. Also occasionally: a similar drink served cold.The drink was originally made from a paste of ground roasted cocoa beans (the drink made by the Aztecs also contained seeds from the silk-cotton tree) and was typically very thick. It is now usually made from melted chocolate (sense A. 2c), cocoa powder, or a sweetened cocoa powder product (see also note at cocoa n. 3a). It was very popular and fashionable across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries; cf. chocolate house n.Now more usually called hot chocolate, drinking chocolate: see the first element.
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the world > food and drink > drink > cocoa > [noun]
chocolate1604
cacao1625
chocolate cup1687
milk chocolate1723
cocoa tea1747
cocoa1786
hot chocolate1789
hot cocoa1824
shell cocoa1902
drinking chocolate1920
shell shock1935
kye1943
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxii. 271 The chiefe vse of this Cacao is in a drinke which they call Chocolate [Sp. Chocolate].
1662 H. Stubbes (title) The Indian nectar; or, a discourse concerning chocolata.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 24 Nov. (1971) V. 329 To a Coffee-house to drink Jocolatte, very good.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 268 Also they drank of a sorbett & Jacolatte.
?c1684 in E. F. Rimbault Old Ballads Great Frost 1683–4 (1844) 28 Wine, beer, ale, brandy, chockelet.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vi. 62 Bless the Mahometan Coffee, and the Popish Spanish Chocolate.
1727 E. Strother tr. P. Hermann Materia Medica II. 20 If you are enclin'd to drink cold Chocolate, dilute the Cake in cold Water.
1749 Addr. to Worshipful Company of Barbers Oxf. 8 His House is handy For Coffee, Chocolate, Wine, Rum, Brandy.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 35 He asked if she would take a dish of chocolate.
1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. v. 135 The chocolate,—from the Mexican chocolatl,—now so common a beverage throughout Europe.
1890 A. Featherman Social Hist. Races Mankind III. 145 A kind of cold chocolate is made with the powder of the cacao-bean mixed with water, to which some plantain juice or wild honey is added for the purpose of sweetening it.
1894 B. Whitby Mary Fenwick's Daughter I. iv. 38 May I drink chocolate? you know I should not have any ‘nerves’ for tea.
1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 9 The fruit syrups, raspberry vinegar, home-made wines..were important drinks when tea, coffee and chocolate were unknown.
1972 J. Purdy I am Elijah Thrush 89 We took a cup of chocolate together.
2013 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 30 Jan. l2 Think of all the skates still to be laced, scarves to be tied and steaming mugs of chocolate to be sipped.
2.
a. Originally: a paste or powder made of ground roasted cocoa beans (typically sweetened and sometimes with other ingredients or flavourings added), used to make a hot drink (see sense A. 1) or as an ingredient in cakes, biscuits, etc. After the mid 19th cent. chiefly: chocolate (sense A. 2c) which has been melted, ground, grated, etc., and used as an ingredient in a similar way.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > cocoa paste, powder, or cake
cacao1625
chocolate1640
chocolate cake1661
cocoa paste1716
chocolate powder1824
cocoa1831
cocoa powder1843
broma1858
cocoa essence1866
cocoa extract1869
cocoa cake1875
cacao powder1878
1640 J. Wadsworth tr. A. Colmenero de Ledesma Curious Treat. Chocolate iii. 18 Adding to the same Chocolate [Sp. Chocolate]..so much Maiz, dryed, and well ground, and taken from the Huske, and then well mingled, in the Morter, with the Chocolate [Sp. con el mismo Chocolate], it falls all into flowre, or dust.
1659 R. Lovell Παμβοτανολογια 70 Cacao..the confection thereof, Chocolate.
1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar Pref. sig. A7 The best Chocolata, call'd Chocolata-Royal, will cost six shillings six pence each pound.
1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 16 Oct. (1948) II. 61 The chocolate is a present, madam, for Stella.
1737 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature (ed. 2) II. xv. 331 They are then formed into a Paste, which is afterward boil'd with Sugar; and this is called plain Chocolate.
1752 E. Moxon Eng. Housewifery (new ed.) 131 Take four ounces of chocolate,..and boil it in a pint of cream, then mill it..with a chocolate stick.
a1821 Mrs. Piozzi in A. Hayward Autobiogr., Lett. & Lit. Remains Mrs. Piozzi (1861) I. 356 The succession powder mingled with chocolate whilst in the cake, not in the liquid we drink.
1842 G. Merle Domest. Dict. & Housekeeper's Man. 27/1 Chocolate Biscuits are made in the same way, by adding an ounce and a half of finely powdered chocolate, when beating up the sugar, with the yolks of eggs.
1874 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 3 Sept. 567/4 Beat the eggs to a froth; not too stiff; add the sugar and chocolate, and stir well together.
1937 Amer. Home Apr. 50/2 Sift the flour 3 times, then mix with chocolate.
1945 F. Verdoorn Plants & Plant Sci. in Lat. Amer. 61 ‘Pinol’ [is] made from toasted maize, ground, mixed with sugar and cocoa or chocolate, stirred in water.
2001 B. Geddes World Food: Caribbean Gloss. 250/2 This cocktail is a blend of aged rum, crème de cacao, lime juice and ice. It is served in a cocktail glass, sprinkled with chocolate.
b. A small item of confectionery made of or coated with chocolate (sense A. 2c).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1852 Examiner 24 July 479/1 (advt.) Railway Pastilles, Penny Sticks, and other Prepared Chocolates in fancy boxes.
1887 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 38 Chocolates in Boxes..per box 1/9.
1898 Pearson's Mag. May 505/2 Miss Monica Cranbrook..was..eating chocolates from a paper bag that she had smuggled into the office.
1913 ‘M. Blake’ Voice of Heart vi. 89 She had selected a chocolate and sat surveying it.
1969 J. Elliot Duel i. iii. 74 A small box of liqueur chocolates..shaped like miniature bottles.
2004 H. Strachan Make a Skyf, Man! vi. 57 Good booze is..more blessed when taken with individually-wrapped little Dutch chocolates after supper.
c. A type of solid confectionery made of processed cocoa beans (and usually other ingredients), often sold in rectangular bars (cf. chocolate bar n. at Compounds 5) or used as a coating on other confectionery.Apparently originally known under the French names chocolat délicieux à manger or chocolat à manger.The ingredients of chocolate vary, but include either cocoa solids or cocoa butter or both, usually sugar, and sometimes milk (see also dark chocolate n. at dark adj. Compounds 2, plain chocolate n. at plain adj.2 Compounds 3, milk chocolate n. at milk n.1 and adj. Compounds 3a, white chocolate n. at white adj. and n. Compounds 1f). The chocolate-making process typically involves blending these ingredients, then tempering and melting the mixture and pouring it into moulds to solidify.Before the early 19th cent., chocolate (sense A. 2a) was sometimes sold in compressed blocks (cf. chocolate cake n. (a) at Compounds 5) but was not eaten in solid form.
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1837 Caledonian Mercury 20 May 1/6 (advt.) Finest Cocoa, 3d. per package..; Chocolat Delicieux à manger, 15d.
1844 T. Webster & F. Parkes Encycl. Domest. Econ. viii. xii. 718 Chocolat à manger is a preparation of chocolate, originally French, made up with sugar into small long cakes for eating.]
1855 J. F. W. Johnston Chem. Common Life I. 224 The chocolate is made up into sweet cakes and bonbons, and is eaten in the solid state as a nutritious article of diet.
1874 L. Troubridge Life amongst Troubridges (1966) 78 I do adore Menier and Nougat chocolate... It is the only thing, except other sorts of choc. and ices, that I really enjoy eating.
1893 Outing Oct. 60/1 She took a bar of chocolate from her coat pocket and nibbled as she rode.
1925 B. Beetham in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 368 Chocolate..plain, nut, milk, nut-milk, Bitro, vanilla, coffee, etc.
1944 Ourselves in Wartime vii. 154/2 Their personal sweet ration..amounted to 3 ozs. of sweets or chocolate a week.
1980 C. James Unreliable Mem. iv. 43 It was a slab of dense, dry honeycomb coated with chocolate.
1983 Washington Post 3 Apr. l1/1 Eating chocolate tends to be addictive.
2012 Independent on Sunday 19 Feb. (New Review) 32/1 We were quite happy with a bag of crisps or a bar of chocolate.
3. The fruit or seed of the cacao tree; (also) the tree itself. Now rare.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > cocoa-bean > cocoa plant
cacao1604
cacao tree1640
cocoa1670
chocolate1688
chocolate tree1688
cocoa tree1698
Theobroma1760
cacao bush1839
forastero1858
criollo1955
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vi. 119/1 Nudated, or smooth thin husk, bladder like or more thicker skin, as the..Chocolate.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Chocolate, the nut of the Cacao-tree.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxv. 372 There are four Orders, taken from the stamens; Chocolate is in the first, Pentandria.
1884 Bot. Gaz. 9 8 We need but mention..the pumpkin and squash, the tomato, peppers, the potato, the cassava, chocolate, etc.
1900 H. R. Blaney Golden Caribbean x. 81 The cacao (chocolate) harvest gives two crops a year.
2008 S. Keeling Rough Guide Puerto Rico 297 Come in March and you'll be able to take the special tour to mark the chocolate harvest.
4. A brown colour similar to that of chocolate; esp. a rich reddish or dark brown.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > dark brown
burneta1450
chocolate colour1729
chocolate-brown1766
chocolate1785
mocha1895
mocha brown1895
nigger1914
nigger-brown1915
tête de nègre1916
cocoa1923
charcoal brown1959
peat1971
1785 J. Wright Addr. Parl. Tax on Fustian 47 Several colours, viz. blacks, browns, blues, purples, chocolates &c.
1788 A. Kippis Life Capt. J. Cook ii. 160 The colour of their skin was a dark chocolate.
1845 H. A. Miles Lowell 93 Logwood is the dye for black, and madder is the dye for reds and chocolates.
1883 H. M. Scarth Rom. Brit. xviii. 177 Stones of a variety of shades, as cream colour, grey, yellow, and chocolate.
1943 Tucson (Arizona) Daily Citizen 11 Oct. 4 (advt.) Western style jackets and coats..come in colors of chocolate and beige.
1958 R. Conant Field Guide Reptiles & Amphibians U.S. 157 Fox snake... Ground color varies from yellowish to light brown, and the dark spots and blotches from chocolate to black.
2008 C. Crompton Knitted Throws & Cushions 40/3 A palette of soft browns and chocolates would look very sophisticated.
B. adj. (chiefly attributive).
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a. Having a brown colour similar to that of chocolate; esp. rich reddish or dark brown.
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a1774 O. Goldsmith Haunch of Venison (1776) 13 The Tripe, quoth the Jew, with his chocolate cheek.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants IV. 202 Pileus with black, brown, and chocolate stripes.
1869 Daily News 24 Apr. A Cariboo young lady of chocolate complexion.
1891 H. Caine Scapegoat I. Introd. 17 His dress was hardly less brilliant—a chocolate jellab over a kaftan of several colours.
1910 Maryland Med. Jrnl. Aug. 263 In mice, if only one color factor is present the fur is chocolate.
1976 Field & Stream July 51/3 My chocolate Labrador truly has a passion for snipe hunting.
2010 Ideal Home May (Living Room Ideas Suppl.) 38/1 Choose chocolate leather sofas for glossy good looks.
b. slang. Designating a black or dark-skinned person. Now usually avoided as offensive.The term does not always have offensive connotations when used by black speakers and writers.
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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > black person > [adjective]
blackOE
Morian1504
African1548
Negro1593
black Morian1631
neger1657
Ethiopian1684
nigger1689
Hubshee1698
Kaffir1731
Nigritian1757
Ethiopic1778
dingy1785
blackamoor1813
nigger-looking1837
darkie1840
Negroid1844
Negroloid1844
dinge1848
Melanian1861
negroish1861
Negroidal1878
Africanoid1885
chocolate?1886
melanodermic1924
nigra1938
tan1950
?1886 J. S. Coyne Arajoon i. 7/1 There, sir, you'll see the little chocolate Venuses in hundreds, bobbing, diving, and splashing.
1903 P. T. Gilbert Great White Tribe in Filipinia xii. 192 While the girls would play duets on the piano, Skim, with a little chocolate baby under either arm, would sing.
1919 Internat. Stereotypers & Electrotypers Union Jrnl. May 22/2 When it comes to real music, the chocolate boys are there.
1956 R. Ellison in New World Writing 9 234 You're both too young and too old, but you're brave. A regular lil' chocolate hero.
2007 S. Dansby Harvey Illegal Affairs 30 ‘I'll tell you what I need to relieve stress—some of these chocolate honeys running round here!’ said Omar, who was ready to talk on one of his favorite subjects. ‘There are some fine sisters here,’ Omar continued.
2. Designating a soil which is predominantly dark brown or reddish brown in colour, and which typically contains moderate quantities of clay and organic matter and is very fertile.chocolate soil: see Compounds 5.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > dark brown
burnetc1200
fusk1599
fusky1610
chocolate-coloured1736
brunneous1815
chocolate1819
ustulate1826
scorched1832
fuscescent1881
forest-brown1892
burnt-coloured1896
Jacobean1918
mocha1977
1819 T. Nuttall Jrnl. Trav. Arkansa Territory 16 Jan. (1821) vi. 99 The chocolate or reddish-brown clay of the salt formation.
1835 Farmers' Reg. Aug. 228/1 The most valuable is the dark chocolate soil, generally on tabular sites, but oftentimes over the rolling lands, indicated by a dense growth of sweet-gums, dogwood, and tulip tree, with an impenetrable undergrowth of gigantic grape vines.
1858 Texas Almanac 56 The soil is chocolate loam.
1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 130/1 Texas is notable for the number of its soils... There is the ‘chocolate’ prairie, and the ‘mulatto’, and the ‘mezquite’, [etc.].
1908 Imperial Gazetteer India (new ed.) VI. 364 The darker rich red and chocolate soils are supposed to be mould weathered from the trap rocks.
1945 Soil Surv. Rep. 88 The soil is commonly known as chocolate loam and occurs in the flood plains of the Red River. It is associated with Miller clay and Yahola clay.
2012 R. Bonner Anat. Injustice i. 6 Green Wood..has rich chocolate soil, fertile for small-scale agriculture.
Phrases
colloquial. as useful (also successful, etc.) as a chocolate teapot (also fireplace, etc.) and variants: not useful, successful, etc., at all. Hence in similar phrases.
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1973 A. Garner Red Shift 20 ‘You great wet Nelly,’ said his father. ‘You're as much use as a chocolate teapot.’
1989 Ad Day (Nexis) 29 June 5 Their start was about as successful as a chocolate teapot.
1997 Canberra Times (Nexis) 30 Nov. a21 There was one professor who thought he knew it all—he was about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
1998 People (Electronic ed.) 12 May Our lawyer was as much use as a chocolate kettle and the building society made more mistakes than you'd have thought possible.
2000 Sunday Mail (Electronic ed.) 2 Jan. Managers generally last as long as a chocolate fireplace under Gil.
2013 A. Bomford Time to Dance xx. 133 With no scripts to learn, no costumes to pack and no friend to phone, I felt as useful as a chocolate fire-guard.
Compounds
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a. General attributive, as chocolate shop, chocolate wrapper, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1784 Town & Country Mag. Suppl. 684/1 I see you pop your head into our chocolate shop now and then.
1842 Bentley's Misc. Sept. 283 A chocolate diet was fatal to the complexion.
1860 G. W. Thornbury in All Year Round 10 Mar. 460/1 I was tempted with a sort of chocolate frother of steel.
1873 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 3 Apr. Confectioners find their choicest goods in the Chocolate line at W. Baker & Co.'s well known Boston House.
1921 T. S. Eliot Let. 4 Dec. (1988) I. 490 This is [a] very quiet town... Mostly banks and chocolate shops.
1942 National Geographic Mag. June 786/2 All winter he had been enjoying himself in the chocolate plantations of the Cauca Valley in Colombia.
1977 Bon Appétit May 10/2 Carob powder is the natural-food-lover's ammunition against chocolate addiction.
2009 Time Out N.Y. 18 June 54/1 A diva-esque bedroom, complete with cat food, discarded chocolate wrappers and hundreds of trinkets.
b. attributive, designating a north-westerly or northerly wind favourable to ships transporting cocoa beans from Mexico to the Caribbean and northern South America, as chocolate north, chocolate gale, chocolate wind. Now historical. [With chocolate north compare Spanish norte chocolatero (1714 in a French context, or earlier).]
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1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. ii. i. 39 The next day having a brisk N.W. Wind, which was a kind of a Chocolatta North, we arrived at Port-Royal.
1699 W. Dampier Voy. & Descr. iii. vi. 62 The Wind continues at N.W. blowing only a brisk Gale, which the Jamaica Seamen call a Chocolate North.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Chocolate-gale, a brisk N.W. wind of the West Indies and Spanish main.
1998 M. Archibald Sixpence for Wind 45 Other winds included..the northwesterly Chocolate Gale of the Caribbean.
2013 D. R. Prinz On Chocolate Trail ii. 22 These shipments of cacao ultimately achieved such renown that they voyaged with what was called the ‘chocolate wind’, or viento chocolatero, the name given in Mexico for the favorable northern breezes... It became clear that Sephardi Jews were probably riding those chocolate winds as well.
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(a) attributive, with the sense ‘made of chocolate’ or ‘flavoured, coated, etc., with chocolate’, as chocolate dessert, chocolate icing, chocolate sculpture, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately. See also as useful (also successful, etc.) as a chocolate teapot (also fireplace, etc.) at Phrases.
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1714 M. Kettilby Coll. above 300 Receipts 94 Lemon or Chocolate-Puffs. Take half a pound of Double-refin'd Sugar [etc.].
1734 J. Middleton & H. Howard 500 New Receipts 24 (heading) A good chocolate tart.
1846 A. Soyer Gastron. Regenerator 550 Turn it over upon the bottom of a large dish, and mask it all over with a chocolate iceing.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. vii. 151 Mrs. Armytage took from her pocket a little jewelled bonbonnière, took out a chocolate praline, and began daintily nibbling it.
1906 Table Talk July 261/1 Olives, candies, and other side dishes were disposed in perfect nests made of chocolate, a chocolate bird perched on the side.
1950 J. Hersey in H. Brickell O. Henry Prize Stories of 1951 (1951) 137 It was my fleshiness, my unbeatable appetite for chocolate things.
1983 L. Zisman & H. Zisman 47 Best Chocolate Chip Cookies in World 20 The biggest chocolate sculpture ever made was a 4, 484-pound, 10-foot-high Easter egg.
1997 J. Steingarten Man who ate Everything (1998) iii. 173 The problem is that the fat in chocolate desserts is mostly saturated.
2013 A. McKinty I hear Sirens in Street 51 Matty..finished the entire plate of chocolate digestives.
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chocolate biscuit n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits
dorcake14..
cracknelc1440
hard breada1500
crackling1598
Naples biscuit1650
gingerbread man1686
chocolate biscuit1702
biscotin1723
sponge biscuit1736
maple biscuita1753
butter biscuit1758
nut1775
Oliver biscuit1786
funeral biscuit1790
rock biscuit?1790
ratafia1801
finger biscuit1812
Savoy drop1816
lady's finger1818
snap1819
Abernethy1830
pretzel1831
wine-biscuit1834
gingersnap1838
captain's biscuit1843
lebkuchen1847
simnel1854
sugar cookie1854
peppernut1862
McClellan pie1863
Savoy ring1866
Brown George1867
beaten biscuit1876
digestive1876
Osborne1876
Bath Oliver1878
marie1878
boer biscuit1882
charcoal biscuit1885
biscotti1886
fairing1888
snickerdoodle1889
pfeffernuss1891
zwieback1894
Nice1895
Garibaldi biscuit1896
Oswegoc1900
squashed fly1900
amaretto1905
boerebeskuit1905
Romary1905
petit beurre1906
Oswego biscuit1907
soetkoekie1910
Oreo1912
custard cream1916
Anzac1923
sweet biscuit1929
langue de chat1931
Bourbon biscuit1932
Afghan1934
flapjack1935
Florentine1936
chocolate chip cookie1938
choc chip cookie1940
Toll House cookie1940
tuile1943
pizzelle1949
black and white1967
Romany Cream1970
papri1978
1702 J. K. tr. F. Massialot New Instr. Confectioners xxvi. 92 (heading) in Court & Country Cook Chocolate-biskets [Fr. biscuits de chocolat].
1842 G. Merle Domest. Dict. & Housekeeper's Man. 27/1 Chocolate Biscuits are made in the same way, by adding an ounce and a half of finely powdered chocolate, when beating up the sugar, with the yolks of eggs.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. ii. 40 She insisted on getting some chocolate biscuits for Mrs. Seipel.
2006 Slimming World Nov. 96/3 You might find yourself preferring to dance round the lounge instead of reaching for the chocolate biscuits.
chocolate éclair n.
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1856 Home Jrnl. (N.Y.) 5 Apr. 4/7 (advt.) Nathan Clark, Confectioner..offers a choice variety of French confectionary—such as Savarins, Chocolate Eclairs, Babas, Chocolate Cream Drops.
1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back ii. 23 He..took me to tea: cream-puffs and chocolate éclairs, a schoolboy's feast.
2005 J. McGahern Memoir 182 I bought a raft of comics, ice-creams and chocolate éclairs.
chocolate ice cream n.
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1789 F. Nutt Compl. Confectioner 121 (heading) Chocolate Ice Cream.
1869 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Ledger 12 July (advt.) Something new at Shelper & Bro's.—Chocolate Ice Cream.
2010 New Yorker 2 Aug. 48/2 The other things that people value—being with family or travelling or enjoying chocolate ice cream.
chocolate mousse n.
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1884 N.-Y. Tribune 7 Apr. 8/4 (advt.) Miss Parloa's Last Lessons will be given this week at her School of Cookery... Soft-shell Crabs, Walnut Ice Cream, Chocolate Mousse, etc.
1920 McClure's Mag. Feb. 14/2 With the assistance of three chocolate mousses and a nut sundae, he wheedled out of her the secret of her disguise.
2006 N. Alderman Disobedience xii. 236 There was a great tureen of chocolate mousse topped with whipped cream.
chocolate sauce n.
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1839 Mag. Domest. Econ. June 360 (heading) German chocolate-sauce.
1903 A. Langdon Just for Two 173 Black and White. Layers of ice cream with chocolate sauce poured over.
2004 Vanity Fair Apr. 199/3 She was very animated, insisting at one point that the waiters bring her extra chocolate sauce for her profiterole.
C2. Objective (with agent nouns, verbal nouns, and participles).† chocolate-confectioning adj. Obsolete rare
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1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xv. 104 The Chocolatte-confectioning Donna's.
chocolate lover n.
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1875 ‘M. Harland’ Breakfast, Luncheon & Tea 364 This [sc. milled chocolate] is esteemed a great delicacy by chocolate lovers, and is easily made.
1979 Sunday Star (Toronto) 5 Aug. (City Suppl.) 12/2 A growing number of independent chocolatiers are beckoning the chocolate lovers, catering to their secret cravings and fantasies as Toronto's sweet tooth works overtime.
2002 Baker's Catal. Jan. 35/1 If you're a chocolate lover, and make coated candies, truffles,..petits fours, or anything else where you need to temper chocolate—the Chandré Sinsation is for you.
chocolate maker n.
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1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar v. 78 Ignorant Chocolata-makers, who amass whatever is good..to be an ingredient.
1727 E. Strother tr. P. Hermann Materia Medica II. vii. 18 There is a Mill made by the Chocolate-Makers, to reduce all [Chocolate] to a fine Substance.
1859 Rep. Yellow Fever Lisbon App. 114/1 in Parl. Papers 1859: Session 2 (H.C. 2581) XXVI. 453 The first case of Yellow Fever which occurred in St. Roque was in the person of a chocolatier, chocolate-maker.
1990 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 19 July 24/4 Portraits of four French artisan food producers—the chocolate maker; the ham smoker; the crustacean packer and the olive stuffer.
chocolate-making n.
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1725 Daily Jrnl. 17 Feb. 1/2 The Contrivance is said to be very Curious, performing the whole Business of Chocolate making, with great Expedition and Cleanliness.
1775 Daily Advertiser 4 Dec. 4/3 A very convenient old-accustomed Shop, in the Chocolate-making and Grocery Business.
1881 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 30 65/2 Alongside of this a complete plant for chocolate making and sweets was in full work.
1914 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 22 626 The warehouse trades, the jam-making and biscuit-making and chocolate-making and tea-packing which employ so vast an army of women.
2006 Saltscapes (Canada) Sept. 83/1 (advt.) Experience the fine art of chocolate making from 130 years of family tradition.
chocolate seller n.
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1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar Pref. sig. A6v The mixture..is..confined only to the common Chocolata-sellers.
1822 Ann. Reg. 1820 (Otridge ed.) i. Chron. 270/2 An itinerant chocolate seller was suddenly struck dead.
1918 R. B. Ross Fifty-first in France i. 23 We were fain to plunge into stammering conversations with the chocolate sellers already come up from Boulogne to drive bargains with the Tommies.
2013 Sunday Times (Nexis) 8 Sept. 11 Today the company is one of the biggest chocolate sellers in Britain, with just under 300 shops.
C3. Instrumental and parasynthetic.
chocolate-coated adj.
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1899 Therapeutic Notes Sept. 44/1 A recent addition to our list of Chocolate-coated Tablets that is especially seasonable is our Chocolate-coated Tablet No. 196.
1928 G. D. Turnbow & L. A. Raffetto Ice Cream 57 Chocolate-coated ice cream bars were introduced in 1921 as ‘Eskimo Pies’.
2002 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 7 Apr. 31/1 Forget stuffed koalas or chocolate-coated macadamias, the hottest tourist purchase in Cairns these days is the Tim Tam.
chocolate-coloured adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > dark brown
burnetc1200
fusk1599
fusky1610
chocolate-coloured1736
brunneous1815
chocolate1819
ustulate1826
scorched1832
fuscescent1881
forest-brown1892
burnt-coloured1896
Jacobean1918
mocha1977
1736 B. Lynde Diary 21 Oct. in B. Lynde & B. Lynde Diaries (1880) 91 My chocolate colored coat.
1819 E. Dana Geogr. Sketches 188 An extensive body of level rich land, of fine black or chocolate coloured soil.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 12 Apr. 1/3 Vesuvius..showering a thick layer of chocolate-coloured dust over us.
2005 Independent 4 May (Property section) 2/4 The wet room has floor-to-ceiling chocolate-coloured mosaic tiles.
chocolate-covered adj.
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1897 Synopsis of Decisions of Treasury Dept. (U.S. Dept. of Treasury) 396 (list) Assorted chocolates and chocolate-covered creams.
1959 N.Y. Times 16 Dec. 53/1 As pretty a package of Lebkuchen as you could wish to see. These spicy little cakes, some of them chocolate covered, cost $3 for twelve ounces.
2006 North Shore News (Brit. Columbia) (Nexis) 20 Dec. 39 Sweet-tooth pleasers like..jaw breakers and chocolate-covered gummy bears.
chocolate-flavoured adj.
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1875 Bradford Observer 30 Jan. 6/4 A long-nosed naturalist..descants..upon eatable kernels, flat peaches from China, chocolate flavoured peaches, and peaches that can be brought to fruition in pots.
1951 Life 5 Feb. 18/3 (advt.) Chocolate Flavored Ovaltine mixed with hot milk as directed is the right kind of hot drink to give your child at breakfast.
2000 Ralph 7 July 146/2 Crème de cacao... This liqueur is excellent for mixing the chocolate-flavoured drinks always in vogue with young girls in knee-high boots.
C4. Similative, with words denoting colour, expressing a colour resembling or suggesting that of chocolate.
chocolate-brown n. and adj.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > dark brown
burneta1450
chocolate colour1729
chocolate-brown1766
chocolate1785
mocha1895
mocha brown1895
nigger1914
nigger-brown1915
tête de nègre1916
cocoa1923
charcoal brown1959
peat1971
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 67/2 The whole bird, the head excepted, is of a chocolate brown, tinged with rust color.
1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. 732 The breast of the male is chocolate-brown.
1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics xi. 165 Good representations of olive-greens or chocolate-browns.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Feb. 8/2 The bride's going-away dress was composed of chocolate brown vigogne.
1941 Coast to Coast 146 The soil under the tank was a rich chocolate brown.
1994 N.Y. Times 20 Dec. d1/5 The familiar chocolate-brown trucks of the United Parcel Service.
2012 Independent 3 Mar. (Mag.) 51/1 The hats come in a great palette of colours from black, chocolate brown, champagne, caramel, fudge and white.
chocolate-crimson n. and adj.
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1817 Lit. Gaz. 21 June 346/1 She wears..a Vandyck dress of a rich chocolate crimson with slashed sleeves.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 444/2 The corolla is very large, of a dark chocolate-crimson colour.
1882 Garden 18 Nov. 451/3 Flowers..of a rich chocolate-crimson.
1911 5th Ann. Rep. Hort. Soc., 1910 (Ontario Dept. Agric.) 84 Bright vermilion red, with chocolate crimson blotch.
1996 S. Raven Cutting Garden 125/1 Grow the aptly named..‘Black Prince’, with its tall spikes of deep chocolate-crimson.
chocolate-red adj. and n.
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1789 W. Lewin Birds Great-Brit. IV. cclviii. 25 Back and tail pale brown: scapulars chocolate red.
1814 P. Syme Werner's Nomencl. Colours 40 Brownish Red, is chocolate red mixed with hyacinth red, and a little chesnut brown.
1882 Garden 8 Apr. 230/1 The ground colour is yellow, that of the markings a chocolate-red.
1936 Ecology 17 696 The Miller soils have chocolate-red calcareous surface soils merging below with chocolate-red calcareous subsoils.
1995 E. V. Gulick Teaching in Wartime China 126 The plain contained the yellows and greens of flourishing crops, the chocolate-red of newly ploughed earth.
2003 J. Avrich Winter without Milk 141 The coastline had regressed to the Appalachians, sinking into the sea in chocolate-red chunks.
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chocolate agar n. (a) a chocolate-flavoured laxative preparation containing agar (disused); (b) (also chocolate blood agar) a dark brown microbiological culture medium made by heat-treating blood agar.
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1916 Therapeutic Notes 123 Chocolate agar, a palatable preparation of japanese seaweed, supplements the action of nature.
1918 Jrnl. Immunol. 359 The organisms were cultivated on ‘chocolate’ agar.
1953 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Bacteriol. (ed. 7) iv. 40 Chocolate agar, which is blood-agar heated to 98° C., favours the growth of the influenza bacillus.
2006 S. Gillespie & P. M. Hawkey Princ. & Pract. Clin. Bacteriol. 277 Clinical samples should be plated onto blood agar or chocolate blood agar supplemented with 5% defibrinated horse blood.
chocolate bar n. a flattish rectangular block of chocolate manufactured as an item of confectionery, usually sold individually wrapped; (also) any similarly-shaped item of confectionery that is coated or flavoured with chocolate.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1865 New Haven (Connecticut) Daily Palladium 1 Nov. Home-made molasses candy,..crystallized fruit, chocolate—bar and drop—and pure confectionery of every description.]
1875 J. H. Twells Mills of Gods ii. xvi. 194 ‘What would have become of Marian and me without you both?’ piteously cried Ronald, stealing another chocolate-bar for his little friend.
1883 Evening Gaz. (Cedar Rapids, Iowa) 1 Aug. An eating match against time took place in Valley Falls, N. Y., the other night, Richard Sullivan won, eating twenty-five clams, one pie, seven chocolate bars, weighing two pounds [etc.].
1917 Southwestern Reporter 192 1045/1 Chocolate bars to be melted were broken on the top of a shaft in the center of the kettle.
1937 G. Gershwin & I. Gershwin They All Laughed (song) 3 They all laughed..at..Hershey and his choc'late bar.
1981 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 31 Oct. He..eats three or four chocolate bars a day. His favorite is a Mars bar.
2013 A. Rutherford Creation: Future of Life ii. 39 in Creation: Origin of Life Our cells are fuelled by a constant supply of glucose, regardless of whether we have just scoffed a chocolate bar or not eaten for hours.
chocolate bunny n. originally U.S. an item of confectionery made of chocolate in the shape of a rabbit, either hollow or solid and traditionally eaten or given at Easter; cf. Easter bunny n. at Easter n.1 Compounds 3.
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1902 Leader-Dispatch (Piqua, Ohio) 13 May Ornamented with exquisite pink baskets, filled with ices, and on the decorated..plates, chocolate bunnies, and angel food cake.
1989 T. Kidder Among Schoolchildren vi. iv. 227 They gave me a chocolate bunny and a chocolate Easter egg.
2012 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 31 Oct. d1/1 There are candy canes for Christmas, gelt for Hanukkah and chocolate bunnies for Easter.
chocolate button n. an item of confectionery made of chocolate in the shape of a small button.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1865 E. Lott Governess in Egypt II. ix. 232 My dgin, ‘spirit’, fairy-like, has laid luncheon for us in the kiosk; and I have placed all the chocolate buttons, that you are so fond of, on a plate for you!
1968 Tucson (Arizona) Daily 14 Nov. 13/3 Butterscotch Pear Torte... Chill before serving. Garnish with chocolate buttons.
2004 B. Francis Fruit viii. 184 Old people are supposed to call you ‘dear’ and serve Mint Melt-a-Ways and chocolate buttons.
chocolate cake n. (a) a block or bar of chocolate; cf. cake n. 6a (now rare); (b) a cake flavoured with chocolate.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > cocoa paste, powder, or cake
cacao1625
chocolate1640
chocolate cake1661
cocoa paste1716
chocolate powder1824
cocoa1831
cocoa powder1843
broma1858
cocoa essence1866
cocoa extract1869
cocoa cake1875
cacao powder1878
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > chocolate cake
chocolate cake1876
1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 22 The kernel is of a Chesse-nut hew both within and without, and of this is made the Chocoletta Cakes; full of an oyly substance, not unlike that of the oyl of Almonds.
1691 W. Yworth New Art of making Wines iv. 52 To make Chocolate-Cakes and Roles.
?1701 T. Tryon Way to get Wealth 68 Add of your Chocolate-Cakes, grated fine, an Ounce and a half, or two Ounces if you would have it richer.
1770 tr. Tariff in G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa IV. App. 291 A pound of French sweet-meats 12 [Reales]. A chocolate-cake 24 [Maravedis].
1868 M. Jewry Warne's Model Cookery 67/2 Scrape up about a quarter of a pound of the chocolate cake into a saucepan with two gills of water.
1876 M. N. F. Henderson Pract. Cooking 299 Chocolate-cake. Make a cup-cake with the following ingredients: One cupful of butter, [etc.].
1938 E. C. Bentley Trent Intervenes xii. 270 She..gave him the chocolate-cake and a knife, making signs that he should continue the scraping.
2003 Art Rev. May 31/1 Bourgeois, who has a sweet tooth, dug a fork into a piece of chocolate cake.
chocolate coin n. an item of confectionery made of chocolate in the shape of a coin, typically wrapped in gold or silver foil.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1910 Bucks Herald 26 Nov. 1/2 (advt.) Chocolates and sweets for Christmas... Chocolate pigs, filled with Chocolate Coins.
2018 Sun (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 14 Dec. 18 A quarter of Irish adults admitted to still getting a Christmas stocking, and 50 per cent said chocolate coins were the favourite stocking filler.
chocolate colour n. a brown colour similar to that of chocolate; = sense A. 4.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > dark brown
burneta1450
chocolate colour1729
chocolate-brown1766
chocolate1785
mocha1895
mocha brown1895
nigger1914
nigger-brown1915
tête de nègre1916
cocoa1923
charcoal brown1959
peat1971
1729 T. Aubrey Sea-surgeon xi. 102 The first sort are a kind of Chocolate Colour; their Hair is commonly very short.
1852 H. Murray Encycl. Geogr. v. iii. 384 Sometimes it has a rich warm green, but more commonly an olive gray or dull blue, or even a very dark chocolate colour.
1938 Jrnl. Mammalogy 19 205 A chocolate color replaces the red brown or cinnamon type of coloration so abundant in the Rocky Mountain region.
2003 Pract. Woodworking Nov. 55/2 Brown oak is a beautiful chocolate colour.
chocolate cup n. (a) (the contents of) a cup in which hot chocolate is prepared or served (now chiefly historical); (b) a cup-shaped container made of chocolate, typically used for serving a dessert.
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the world > food and drink > drink > cocoa > [noun]
chocolate1604
cacao1625
chocolate cup1687
milk chocolate1723
cocoa tea1747
cocoa1786
hot chocolate1789
hot cocoa1824
shell cocoa1902
drinking chocolate1920
shell shock1935
kye1943
1687 tr. Rel. Late Embassy to Court of King of Siam 149 Mr. Constans's Presents to the King... Two small Cups with Ears. Two Chocholate Cups [Fr. chocolatieres]. Four several small Dishes to burn Incense after the China and Japon fashion [etc.].
a1714 E. Freke Remembrances (2001) 171 3 broad fine china dishes, given me by my deer sister..as was..5 fine china tea cups by the same..5 fine china chocolett cups by ye same.
1758 J. Milles in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 29 They begin with a purge; and assist its operation with ten or twelve chocolate-cups of the water.
1872 Dessert Bk. xvii. 123 Skim off the froth into warm chocolate-cups until they are heaped full.
1919 Smart Set Aug. 120/2 Cindy rang for an extra chocolate cup.
1947 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 3 Oct. 11/4 Ice Cream in Chocolate Cups... Thickly coat the insides of little fluted paper baking cups with the melted chocolate... When the chocolate is set, carefully peel off the paper cups and the chocolate cups will remain in the same pattern.
1990 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 47 12 (caption) Chocolate cup and saucer, Meissen, about 1716.
2013 F. Costigan Vegan Chocolate ix. 220 The only problem with that recipe was that making the chocolate cups was too time consuming.
chocolate cyst n. Medicine a cyst, esp. of the ovary, that contains dark brown altered blood as a result of previous haemorrhage, typically occurring as a manifestation of endometriosis.
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1921 Amer. Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 2 526 Dr. John A. Sampson, of Albany, New York, read a paper entitled, Perforating Hemorrhagic (Chocolate) Cysts of the Ovary.
1949 H. W. C. Vines Green's Man. Pathol. (ed. 17) iii. 54 These ‘chocolate cysts’ are especially seen on the ovary, and are generally due to hæmorrhage into a corpus luteum or to an endometrioma.
2003 Washington Post 12 Aug. f1 The sonograms revealed six large uterine fibroids plus an endometrioma, which is an ovarian cyst that is also known as a ‘chocolate cyst’ because it's comprised of old, dark, bloody tissue.
chocolate drop n. (a) an item of confectionery made of chocolate in the shape of a small disc or cone; (also) = chocolate chip n.; (b) slang a black person (now usually avoided as offensive).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1764 London Mag. Jan. 29/2 When a kind godfather..made each a present of a crown piece,..Miss Susan was sure to expend it in maccaroons or chocolate-droops [sic].
1826 M. Kelly Reminisc. I. 208 Continually putting chocolate drops, which he took from his waistcoat pocket, into his mouth.
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 160 Chocolate Drops with Nonpareils.
1897 Cambr. City (Indiana) Tribune 15 July Of course you have seen that little darky stranger... This little chocolate drop came in on a freight.
1915 Young Woman's Jrnl. Dec. 761/1 Take a piece of fondant about the size of an ordinary chocolate drop.
1922 M.E. Smith Adventures of Boomer Op. 41 ‘Say, look here old Chocolate Drop,’ says Red, ‘why all this glee stuff.’
2010 D. Cadbury Chocolate Wars xiii. 194 Apart from his milk chocolate Hershey Bar, he introduced conical chocolate drops called Hershey's Kisses in 1907.
2012 R. Reed Beware of Limbo Dancers ii. 18 She called me something, and I responded with the cruelest name I could come up with: Chocolate Drop! I meant it as an insult, and she accepted it as such.
chocolate egg n. originally U.S. an item of confectionery made of chocolate in the shape of an egg, either hollow, solid, or filled with fondant, etc.; spec. such an egg given at Easter; cf. Easter egg n. 1.
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1862 Sci. Amer. 26 July 50/3 Here you have chocolate eggs full of cream where the yolk should be; there you have sugar eggs filled with liqueur.
1877 Titusville (Pa.) Morning Herald 2 Mar. The imported silk covered gum paste egg, with fine hand paintings and open work, take well. The papier mache eggs, chip, straw, leather and cloth covered, as well as chocolate eggs all go far towards making the assortment.
1922 Glasgow Herald 11 Oct. 8 Chocolate eggs filled with ice-cream and known as ‘Eskimos’.
2008 Time Out N.Y. 13 Mar. 121/3 The logical French delight their youngsters with chocolate eggs from the much more believable Easter Hen.
chocolate factory n. a factory in which chocolate, or chocolate confectionery, is produced.
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1817 Country Courier 20 Jan. 214/2 A fire..destroyed a number of buildings of considerable value. Among the number was..Shonnard's Chocolate factory.
1967 R. Dahl (title) Charlie and the chocolate factory.
2002 Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Travel section) v. 8 If all the Cadbury creme eggs made at its chocolate factory were stacked on top of each other they would be 900 times higher than Mt Everest.
chocolate finger n. a long, thin chocolate-covered (or -filled) biscuit or item of confectionery; cf. finger biscuit at finger n. Compounds 1b(a).
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1880 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) 12 Sept. (advt.) Wilson's Vanilla and Lemon Wafers,..Butter Scotch Cakes, Ginger Snaps, Chocolate Fingers, Arrow Root Crackers, [etc.].
1908 N.Y. Times 21 Dec. 3/6 (advt.) Imported Wafers..Peas in Pods, Chocolate Fingers (filled with chocolate paste).
1998 W. Herrick Jumping Line iii. 17 Up the hill to Broad Street, and left turn to Loft's Candy Store, where if I had a penny or two I would stop to buy a chocolate finger.
2013 Irish Times (Nexis) 24 Dec. 11 The Afternoon Tea tins..had..sugary shortbread, more than a handful of chocolate fingers and loads of pink wafers.
chocolate fondant n. a dessert consisting of a chocolate sponge cake with a soft, thick, liquid chocolate centre.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > sweet or fruit puddings
white pudding1588
quaking puddinga1665
apple pudding1708
cowslip pudding1723
plum pudding1811
roly-poly pudding1821
black cap1822
amber pudding1829
bird's nest pudding1829
slump1831
Bakewell pudding1833
roly-poly1835
dog in a (or the) blanket1842
castle pudding1845
ice pudding1846
pan pie1846
dick1849
roll-up1856
canary pudding1861
roly1861
treacle pud1861
Brown Betty1864
summer pudding1875
parfait1884
schalet1884
Sally Lunn pudding1892
Tommy1895
queen of puddings1903
layer-pudding1909
clafoutis1926
shrikhand1950
chocolate fondant1971
mud-pie1975
tiramisu1982
lava cake1994
1971 N.Y. Times 3 Sept. (Late City ed.) 33/5 For dessert, a chocolate fondant tasted more like a piece of tire than fudge.
2018 @osetrakalkbay 13 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Oct. 2019) Who doesn't love a decadent chocolate fondant with a gooey chocolate centre to round off a delicious meal 😋.
chocolate fudge n. originally U.S. (a) chocolate-flavoured fudge; a piece of this; (b) attributive designating sweet foods having the rich chocolate flavour and dense consistency associated with chocolate fudge.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > fudge
tablet1736
penuche1872
chocolate fudge1892
fudge1896
1892 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Jrnl. 12 Mar. 5/1 The last occasion of this kind was accompanied by a ‘spread’ of which the principal feature was chocolate ‘fudges’.
1902 Boston Daily Globe 17 Nov. 3/7 Chocolate fudge frosting—1½ tablespoons butter, ¼ cup unsweetened powdered cocoa [etc.].
1930 Clearfield (Pa.) Progress 1 Feb. 5/6 They all certainly enjoyed the plate of chocolate fudge brought by Mrs. Search.
1946 N.Y. Herald Tribune 19 Sept. 23/8 Mr. Alias' granddaughter..told us that the chocolate fudge cake was away up on her list. And the brownies!
1968 Life 29 Mar. 45 (advt.) Ladle lots of chocolate fudge sauce into a mug of warm milk.
1980 Atlanta Daily World 6 Nov. 14/1 Fudge Mint Brownies and creamy chocolate fudge are both ideal additions to any holiday gift list.
1997 F. Welsh Compan. Guide to Lake District (rev. ed.) i. 4 They make chocolate fudges, and toffees.
2014 Evening News (Edinb.) (Nexis) 8 Mar. 21 The chocolate fudge brownie was served with homemade praline ice cream.
chocolate kiss n. originally and chiefly U.S. a small chocolate cake or piece of confectionery; (now) esp. one consisting of chocolate formed into a conical shape; cf. kiss n. 3.
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1850 Daily Ohio Statesman 9 Oct. 2/3 Confectionary.—Macaroons; Patience; Jelly Cake; Chocolate Kisses; Union Stars; Mottoes; Pimento Nuts.
1874 Cultivator & Country Gentleman 3 Sept. 567/4 Chocolate kisses.—Three heaping tablespoonfuls of grated chocolate; one pound of granulated sugar; the whites of four eggs..drop on buttered paper with a teaspoon.
1913 M. H. Neil Candies & Bonbons & how to make Them 221 Cherry, pineapple, ginger, nut, and chocolate kisses are made in the same way.
2009 Toronto Star (Nexis) 8 Dec. e8 Remove from oven and immediately press a chocolate kiss into the centre of each cookie.
chocolate lava n. melted chocolate; (now) esp. a soft, thick, liquid centre of a chocolate cake, cookie, etc.Frequently as a modifier, esp. in chocolate lava cake (cf. lava cake n. at lava n. Additions).
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > chocolate cake > types of
brownie1897
Sachertorte1906
blackout cake1942
Black Forest cake1959
Black Forest gâteau1967
chocolate lava cake1992
lava cake1994
Brooklyn blackout (cake)1999
1929 S. Kerr Mareea-Maria ii. 23 The cake of the morning, five layers high, a mighty plateau of sweetness and light covered with thick chocolate lava.
1981 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. 8/2 Its chocolate lava cookies..are insanely delicious.
1992 Daily News (Northwest Florida) 23 Dec. c9/2 Chocolate lava cakes... These individual chocolate cakes have a soft center of chocolate fudge that erupts in a rich, dark puddle from the warm cakes... Chocolate lava filling: 3 ounces bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate, [etc.].
2015 D. Leffman Rough Guide to Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei 93/1 Freshly baked buns..come in five types: stuffed with chocolate, coffee, chocolate lava, blueberry and durian.
chocolate lily n. (a) any of several fritillaries of western North America which have brown or purplish-brown flowers, esp. Fritillaria biflora and F. affinis; (b) any of several Australian herbaceous plants of the genus Arthropodium (formerly Dichopogon) (family Asparagaceae), esp. A. strictum, having chocolate-scented blue or violet flowers.
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1890 West Amer. Scientist June 15 The Chocolate Lily.—An elegant plant..producing from one to five large and beautiful deep claret brown campanulate flowers like a spray of bells.
1930 Argus (Melbourne) 10 Oct. 6/5 The air is laden..with the warm vanilla fragrance of chocolate lilies.
2005 W. Deverell April Fool iii. 29 The secret is kept from uncountrified visitors who tend to leave gates open or tramp on the chocolate lilies.
2013 Canberra Times (Nexis) 22 Nov. a8 Nodding chocolate lilies were relatively widespread but in low numbers, because they were very susceptible to being eaten by grazing animals.
chocolate liqueur n. (a) a chocolate with a liqueur filling; = liqueur chocolate n. at liqueur n. Compounds 2; (b) a chocolate-flavoured liqueur.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > distilled drink > liqueur > [noun] > kinds of
rosa solis1564
rose wine1603
rose of solace1604
ros solis1607
ratafia1670
brandy-cherrya1687
cherry-brandy1686
kernel-water1706
cherry cordial1710
visney1733
walnut-water1747
aniseed1749
maraschino1770
noyau1787
rosolio1796
cherry-bounce1798
absinthe1803
Parfait Amour1805
curaçao1813
ginger cordial1813
citronelle1818
pine1818
crèmea1821
alkermes1825
Goldwasser1826
citronella1834
anisette1837
goldwater1849
crème de cassis1851
Van der Hum1861
chocolate liqueur1864
kümmel1864
chartreuse1866
pimento dram1867
Trappistine1877
green muse1878
rock and rye1878
Benedictine1882
liqueur brandy1882
mandarin1882
green1889
Drambuie1893
advocaat1895
Grand Marnier1900
green fairy1902
green peril1905
cassis1907
Strega1910
quetsch1916
cointreau1920
anis1926
Izarra1926
Southern Comfort1934
amaro1945
Tia Maria1948
amaretto1969
Sabra1970
sambuca1971
Midori1978
limoncello1993
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet > chocolate
jessamy-chocolate1697
milk chocolate1723
plain chocolate1737
chocolate drop1764
chocolate cream1851
chocolate1852
chocolate liqueur1864
chocolate button1865
choc1874
chocolate bar1875
choccy1885
langue de chat1897
black chocolate1902
soft centre1902
truffle1902
liqueur chocolate1904
bar1906
bark1910
chocolate coin1910
white chocolate1917
dark chocolate1930
Mars bar1932
Smarties1939
nutty1947
liqueur1965
1864 Belfast News-let. 30 Apr. 2/7 (advt.) Especially manufactured for eating as ordinary Sweetmeats..Chocolate Pastilles, Chocolate Croquettes, and Chocolate Liqueurs (very delicate).
1869 W. Terrington Cooling Cups & Dainty Drinks 145 (header) Chocolate Liqueurs.
1905 W. H. Simmonds Pract. Grocer II. xix. 244 With these are usually grouped other fancy sweetmeats of more or less allied forms, such as abricotines, dragées, fondants, fruits fourrés, legumes surfines, chocolate liqueurs, [etc.].
1988 Black Enterpirse Aug. 78/3 For a Last Mango in Texas..combine one ounce Grand Marnier, one half ounce of chocolate liqueur, one half ounce orange juice, [etc.].
2006 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 12 Mar. iv. 3/1 The new Dominick's ‘lifestyle store’..doesn't carry just baking chocolate, chocolate-covered donuts and chocolate liqueurs.
chocolate liquor n. cocoa mass, esp. in a semi-liquid state; also called cocoa liquor.
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chocolate liquor1662
dope18..
cream1903
mousse1968
1662 H. Stubbe Indian Nectar vi. 161 I finde an observable difference betwixt fresh and old Chocolata-liquour.
1873 Bangor (Maine) Daily Whig & Courier 3 Apr. Confectioners find their choicest goods in the Chocolate line at W. Baker & Co.'s well known Boston House... Their Chocolate liquors are especially fine and deserves [sic] especial attention.
1947 Econ. Bot. 1 259/2 Cocoa is the sifted powdered press cake after most of the butter (fat) has been removed from the chocolate liquor.
2001 Organic Style Sept. 98/3 White chocolate, A mixture of cocoa butter, sugar, milk, and flavorings. Contains no chocolate liquor.
chocolate mill n. (a) a utensil for stirring or frothing hot chocolate, typically consisting of a thin handle and a cylindrical notched head; cf. molinet n. 1 (now historical); (b) a building in which cocoa beans are ground to make chocolate.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > mixer
chocolate mill1703
cake mixer1867
mixer1876
electric mixer1900
food mixer1917
mixmaster1930
Osterizer1948
Waring blender1948
liquidizer1950
1703 London Gaz. No. 3891/3 Lackered Tea-Tables, Chocolat-Mills.
1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vii. 184 Mill them with a Chocolate Mill, to raise the Froth, and take it off with a Spoon as it rises.
1784 Acts & Laws State Mass. lxxii. 178 Through the dam aforesaid there be a sluice or passage way made, on the north side of the chocolate mill.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery (ed. 2) 547 The general reader will understand the use of the chocolate-mill..; but to the uninitiated it may be as well to observe, that it is worked quickly round between both hands to give a fine froth to the chocolate.
1857 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 5 275/2 Poor Ireland makes its warm drink of the husks of the cocoa, the refuse of the chocolate-mills of Italy and Spain.
1984 R. Feild Irons in Fire vi. 159 (caption) Notched wooden moliquet or chocolate mill, with a turned wooden handle which screws into the head.
2011 Sunday Mail (S. Austral.) (Nexis) 16 Jan. 17 Nici snacks on crunchy salt and lime-flavoured grasshoppers at the local markets, before trying pure cacao at a chocolate mill.
chocolate milk n. chocolate-flavoured milk, usually served cold, and either made at home from powder or syrup or purchased as a ready-made product.
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the world > food and drink > drink > milk drinks > [noun]
rice milk1620
whig1684
leban1695
saloop1728
sack-whey1736
celery whey1761
mustard whey1769
wine whey1769
Scotch chocolate1785
whey-whig1811
chocolate milk1819
horchata1859
tamarind-whey1883
milk shake1886
Horlick1891
lassi1894
Ovaltine1906
shake1909
malt1942
malted1945
1819 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries III. i. viii. 279 The dinner..consisted of pickled salmon, chocolate milk, by way of soup, pancakes, a kind of cakes called diet-bread, rye biscuit, and reindeer cheese.
1922 Milk Dealer Nov. 73 The milk company..had planned to put out a chocolate milk.
2010 Daily Tel. 4 June 17/8 Chocolate milk may be better for athletes recovering from a workout than traditional sports drinks.
chocolate nut n. now chiefly historical the seed or fruit of the cacao tree; = cacao nut n. at cacao n. Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > cocoa-bean
cacao1555
cacao nut1625
cocoa nut1683
cocoa1698
chocolate nut1701
cacao bean1785
cocoa bean1799
criollo1877
cracked cocoa1934
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > cocoa-bean
cacao1555
cacao nut1625
cocoa nut1683
cocoa1698
chocolate nut1701
nut1707
cacao bean1785
1701 tr. T. Willis Receipts Cure All Distempers 37 Add to it kernels of the Indian Chocolate Nut.
1857 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 29 528 The butter of cacao, or the chocolate nut, is used sometimes for enveloping pills.
2009 J. F. Gay in L. E. Grivetti & H.-Y. Shapiro Chocolate xxiii. 284/1 Cocoa beans were called ‘chocolate nuts’ or ‘cocoa nuts’ or simply ‘cocoa’ until the 19th century.
chocolate pot n. now chiefly historical a covered pot with a spout, in which hot chocolate is made or served.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > other types of pot or pan
olla1535
pipkin1554
marmite1581
diet-pot1617
pipkinet1647
chocolate pot1676
gotch1691
lead1741
puchero1791
steamer1814
bake pot1822
kedgeree-pot1824
braising-pan1825
handi1847
craggan1880
yabba1889
sufuria1891
dixie1900
Revere1901
pressure cooker1914
pressure saucepan1940
li1945
wok1952
li ting1958
firepot1959
fondue pot1959
tian1978
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. E3 To come to Church with their Chocalatte pots.
1757 Appraisements of Estate 20 Oct. in G. Washington Papers (1988) VI. 225 3 Coffeepots 1 Chocolate pot.
1850 A. Soyer Mod. Housewife (new ed.) 346 Put a pint of milk in a stewpan or chocolate-pot, and place it on the fire, with two ounces of sugar, boil it, put the Cho-ca in it, and stir it well.
1910 Keith's Mag. Nov. 340/1 A silver or plated chocolate pot is an admirable asset, with a silver basket for sugar, a bowl for whipped cream, and porcelain cups.
2007 Church Times 24 Aug. 16 (caption) One of the twelve 18th century Meissen chocolate pots sent by Pope Pius XII.
chocolate powder n. = cocoa powder n. 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > substances for food preparation > [noun] > cocoa paste, powder, or cake
cacao1625
chocolate1640
chocolate cake1661
cocoa paste1716
chocolate powder1824
cocoa1831
cocoa powder1843
broma1858
cocoa essence1866
cocoa extract1869
cocoa cake1875
cacao powder1878
1824 Morning Chron. 15 Mar. 1/4 (advt.) Chocolate Cakes & Chocolate Powder, from which liquid Chocolate may be instantly made.
1850 A. Normandy Commerc. Hand-bk. Chem. Anal. 179 The preparation known as cocoa-powder, or chocolate powder, when genuine, consists only of cocoa-nibs, sugar, and arrow-root.
1949 Tap & Tavern 18 Apr. 8/1 The drink..is made by mixing chocolate powder with milk,..and by injecting live steam into the drink.
2009 Nespresso No. 1. (facing p. 74) Mocha Latte... Place the chocolate powder into a Cappuccino cup. Prepare the espresso directly onto the chocolate powder, and mix together.
chocolate rabbit n. originally U.S. = chocolate bunny n.; cf. Easter rabbit n. at Easter n.1 Compounds 3.
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1898 N.Y. Times 1 Apr. 4/2 There's a sixty-five pound chocolate rabbit,—$25.
1906 Kindergarten Rev. Apr. 488/1 Besides Easter eggs, these children had good things to eat, oranges, candy eggs, and chocolate rabbits.
1965 M. Drabble Millstone 9 Looking in the shop windows and feeling rather as though I were looking my last on the expensive vegetables and the chocolate rabbits and the cosy antiques.
1999 F. McCourt 'Tis xli. 364 When Christ is risen and Americans give their children chocolate rabbits and yellow eggs.
chocolate root n. U.S. (now rare) †(a) a North American saxifrage, Saxifraga pensylvanica (obsolete rare); (b) (also more fully Indian chocolate root) water avens, Geum rivale, the root of which smells of chocolate and was used to make a medicinal drink; also called Indian chocolate.
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1814 B. S. Barton Elements Bot. (new ed.) II. 49 Saxifragra Pennsylvanica [sic], called Chocolate-root; and Saxifraga Virginiensis..are both early flowering plants.
1901 Rhodora 3 130 Geum rivale. The plant is called chocolate-root, and the root when boiled makes a drink like chocolate.
2005 J. Seidemann World Spice Plants 166/1 Geum rivale L... Indian chocolate root, purple avens, water avens.
chocolate salami n. [compare Portuguese salame de chocolate (1964 or earlier), Italian salame di cioccolato (1985 or earlier)] an Italian and Portuguese dessert typically made with eggs, sugar, (dark) chocolate, and crumbled biscuits (also occasionally with rum, port, etc.) formed into a large sausage shape to resemble salami.
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1968 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 8 Mar. 5/1 How does chocolate salami strike you?.. It is a type of cookie that is made to look like salami.
2011 T. Giudice Fabulicious! xi. 169 Chocolate salami is a traditional Tuscan fudge-like dessert that's easy to make.., and looks so pretty when it's sliced and arranged on a plate.
chocolate spot n. (also more fully chocolate spot disease) (a) a disease of field beans and broad beans (genus Vicia) characterized by the appearance of reddish-brown spots on the foliage, flowers, pods, and stems and typically progressing to a severe blight, caused by Botrytis fabae and certain other fungi of the genus Botrytis; (b) any of various other diseases or physiological disorders of plants characterized by the appearance of brown spots.
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1922 Ann. Appl. Biol. 9 203 The ‘streak’ disease of beans (Chocolate Spot Disease) is caused by B[acillus] lathyri.
1959 A. Beaumont Dis. Farm Crops vi. 92 This [sc. field spot] is sometimes found on field beans in England and Scotland and can be confused with chocolate spot.
1970 New Scientist 10 Sept. 527/1 Chocolate spot is a disease, found in hot, dry countries, which attacks potatoes.
2010 G. Stebbings Growing Fruit & Veg For Dummies vii. 127 Chocolate spot is the only serious disease that affects broad beans.
chocolate tree n. a cacao tree ( Theobroma cacao).
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible pods, seeds, leaves, or flowers > [noun] > cocoa-bean > cocoa plant
cacao1604
cacao tree1640
cocoa1670
chocolate1688
chocolate tree1688
cocoa tree1698
Theobroma1760
cacao bush1839
forastero1858
criollo1955
1688 J. Ray Historia Plantarum II. Nomenclator Botanicus at Cacao The Cacao, or Chocolate-tree, Cacao.
1827 J. P. Hamilton Trav. Interior Provinces Columbia I. 323 The grounds where the chocolate-trees grew were nicely irrigated, and they had a quantity of cocoa-nuts on them.
2009 New Scientist 11 Apr. 9/1 But the hunt for Easter eggs may truly be on next year, because chocolate trees are in increasing trouble.
Derivatives
chocolaˈtesque adj. rare before 21st cent. relating to chocolate; (now chiefly) resembling, or intended to resemble, something made of or with chocolate; reminiscent of chocolate.
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1881 Daily Tel. 2 Mar. 5/3 The late M. Menier, of chocolatesque fame.
1979 T. de Haven Freaks' Amour vi. 99 I got..a dozen cans of soup, ‘chocolat-esque’ grahams and a tub of instant potatoes.
2003 G. Cousens Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine 349/2 Pour 2 C of coconut cream over the Chocolatesque Sauce.
2009 My Winespace May 27/2 The body of the wine was more chocolate-esque as it was fuller and richer.
chocoˈlatical adj. [originally after Spanish †chocolatico (1631 in the passage translated in quot. 1640)] rare after 17th cent. designating chocolate; of or relating to chocolate.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [adjective] > chocolate
chocolatical1640
chocolatey1881
1640 J. Wadsworth tr. A. Colmenero de Ledesma Curious Treat. Chocolate i. 8 As for the rest of the ingredients, which make our Chocolaticall Confection [Sp. nuestra confeccion Chocolatica].
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xvi. 108 This Chocolatticall confection is not so cold as the Cacao.
1985 J. Ott Cacahuatl Eater 27 (chapter title) Pre-Columbian chocolatical history.
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chocolatev.
/ˈtʃɒk(ə)lət/, U.S. /ˈtʃɔk(ə)lət/, /ˈtʃɑk(ə)lət/ intransitive. To consume chocolate (as an item of food or as a drink).
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1850 B. Taylor Eldorado II. xix. 140 We arose in the moonlight, chocolated in the comedor, or dining-hall.
1921 E. E. Cummings Let. 17 May (1969) lxi. 78 After resting under a huge spruce and chocolating, we started down again.
2010 Bush Tel. (Bankstown, Sydney) Spring 1/2 We sat around the fire under a starry sky chatting, drinking red wine, chocolating and having a great laugh.
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