coquille

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

/ ˈkɒp iˌrid oʊˈkil; French kɔˈki yə /

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noun, plural co·quilles

[koh-keelz; French kaw-kee-yuh]. /koʊˈkilz; French kɔˌki yə/.

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.

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Origin of coquille

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

Words nearby coquille

coquetry, coquette, coquettish, coquillage, coquilla nut, coquille, coquilles St. Jacques, coquimbite, coquina, coquito, cor

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

any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shellCoquilles St Jacques

a scallop shell, or dish resembling a shell

fencing a bell-shaped hand guard on a foil

Word Origin for coquille

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

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