coquille

American  

[kop-ee-reed-oh-keel, kaw-kee-y^uh] / ˈkɒp iˌrid oʊˈkil, kɔˈki jə /

noun

coquilles plural

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.

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coquille British  

/ 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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• coquilles
  plural

Etymology

Origin of coquille

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

Example Sentences

Other menu items in the works include crab cakes, crab legs with remoulade, lobster Newburg, cucumber salad, Waldorf salad, coquille St-Jacques, double pork chop smothered with mushroom and caramelized onion cream sauce and more.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2014

And I remember recording a mental note of Margery’s fondness for sweetbreads en coquille.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

The above dish resembles ragoût fin en coquille, a popular Continental dish, although its principal ingredients are sweetbreads instead of brains.

From Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Vehling, Joseph Dommers