coquille

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

noun,plural co·quilles [koh-keelz; French kaw-kee-yuh]. /koʊˈkilz; French kɔˌki yə/.
  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.

  1. a cooking utensil, filled with charcoal, for roasting meat on a spit.

  2. the shell of an escargot.

Origin of coquille

1
<French: shell (of a mollusk, nut, etc.). See cockle1

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How to use coquille in a sentence

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

    A Conchological Manual | George Brettingham Sowerby
  • And I remember recording a mental note of Margerys fondness for sweetbreads en coquille.

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

    Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution | Alpheus Spring Packard
  • Still the coquille—for that such she was very little doubt existed—kept creeping up.

    The Missing Ship | W. H. G. Kingston
  • The two vessels stood on; the Ouzel Galley was rapidly approaching the land, while the coquille was getting further from it.

    The Missing Ship | W. H. G. Kingston

British Dictionary definitions for coquille

coquille

/ (French kɔkij) /


noun
  1. any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shell: Coquilles St Jacques

  2. a scallop shell, or dish resembling a shell

  1. fencing a bell-shaped hand guard on a foil

Origin of coquille

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

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