cassolette

American

[kas-uh-let] / ˌkæs əˈlɛt /

noun

a container for cooking and serving an individual portion of food, usually made of pottery, silver, or paper, or sometimes of baked dough.

Etymology

Origin of cassolette

1650–60; < French, equivalent to cassole ( casse small saucepan ( see casserole) + -ole diminutive suffix) + -ette -ette

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There was a certain little restaurant in the Rue des Pipots where they concocted a cassolette of goose liver and pork chops with haricot beans which .

From Castles in the Air by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

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