cassolette

[kas-uh-let]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cassolette¹

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

Example Sentences

In front of the open-plan kitchen, Anne-Cecile Degenne, Singapore’s first female hotel executive chef, prepares the main course, a red curry seafood cassolette.

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Specialties include big Belon oysters, cassolette de queues d'�crevisses, pressed duck Rouennaise.

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OLLULA, a small O., a casserole, or cassolette.

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Associated words: exhale, exhalation, cassolette, perfumer, perfumery. perhaps, adv. perchance, peradventure, possibly, haply. peril, n.

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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 .

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