coquille
any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
the cooking utensil for baking such dishes, usually a scallop shell or small casserole resembling a shell.
a cooking utensil, filled with charcoal, for roasting meat on a spit.
the shell of an escargot.
Origin of coquille
1Words Nearby coquille
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
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 SowerbyAnd I remember recording a mental note of Margerys fondness for sweetbreads en coquille.
Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 | VariousSur la division des Mollusques acéphalés conchylifères et sur un nouveau genre de coquille appartenant à cette division.
Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution | Alpheus Spring PackardStill the coquille—for that such she was very little doubt existed—kept creeping up.
The Missing Ship | W. H. G. KingstonThe 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
/ (French kɔkij) /
any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shell: Coquilles St Jacques
a scallop shell, or dish resembling a shell
fencing a bell-shaped hand guard on a foil
Origin of coquille
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse