cocotte
/kɒˈkɒt
/noun
1 (usually in phrase en cocotte ɒ̃ kɒˈkɒt) A small heatproof dish in which individual portions of food can be cooked and served.Very soon he will put versions of Escoffier-era classics like sole Veronique and lamb en cocotte on the à la carte menu....
- The eggs en cocotte that he served for dinner were very heavily garnished with truffles and buried in cream, with a mantle of cheese.
- You shouldn't come here merely to revel in birthdays and anniversaries but to focus on and swoon over dishes like sweetbreads en cocotte with ginger and licorice.
Early 20th century: from French cocasse, from Latin cucuma 'cooking container'
2 dated A fashionable prostitute.All of her female characters are brilliantly realised: worldly wife, sophisticated cocotte, ingenue, free spirit, prude....
- Coquette and cocotte were equally part of the era's imaginary representations of women.
Mid 19th century: French, from a child's name for a hen
Rhymes
- purple sprouting broccoli
- purple spurge
- purple state
- purple swamphen
- purple urchin
- purple-wearer
- purple willow
- purplewood
- purple wreath
- purple zone
- purplish
- purply
- purport
- purportedly
- purportless
- purpose
- purpose-built
- purposedly
- purposeful
- purposefully
- purposefulness
- purposeless
- purposelessly
- purposelessness
- purpose-like