coquille

[ kop-ee-reed-oh-keel; French kaw-kee-yuh ]

noun

, plural co·quilles [koh-, keelz, kaw-kee-y, uh].

1. any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
2. the cooking utensil for baking such dishes, usually a scallop shell or small casserole resembling a shell.
3. a cooking utensil, filled with charcoal, for roasting meat on a spit.
4. the shell of an escargot.

coquille

/ kɔkij /

noun

1. any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shell

   Coquilles St Jacques

2. a scallop shell, or dish resembling a shell
3. fencing a bell-shaped hand guard on a foil

Word History and Origins

Origin of coquille¹

< French: shell (of a mollusk, nut, etc.). See cockle ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of coquille¹

French, literally: shell, from Latin conchӯlium mussel; see cockle ¹

Example Sentences

Described in the Voyage de la Coquille, and represented as a molluscous animal destitute of a shell.

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And I remember recording a mental note of Margerys fondness for sweetbreads en coquille.

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Sur la division des Mollusques acéphalés conchylifères et sur un nouveau genre de coquille appartenant à cette division.

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Still the Coquille—for that such she was very little doubt existed—kept creeping up.

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The two vessels stood on; the Ouzel Galley was rapidly approaching the land, while the Coquille was getting further from it.

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