coquille
Americannoun
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coquilles
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any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
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the cooking utensil for baking such dishes, usually a scallop shell or small casserole resembling a shell.
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a cooking utensil, filled with charcoal, for roasting meat on a spit.
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the shell of an escargot.
noun
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any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shell
Coquilles St Jacques
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a scallop shell, or dish resembling a shell
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fencing a bell-shaped hand guard on a foil
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of coquille
< French: shell (of a mollusk, nut, etc.). See cockle 1
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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
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
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
Tonight’s recipe is a Canlis salad with bread, to save time to get ahead on Friday’s recipe for make-ahead coquilles St.-Jacques.
From New York Times ● Feb. 18, 2016
The French tried in 1995 to prevent markets and restaurants from selling imported scallops as coquilles St. Jacques--but Canada, with support from the U.S.,
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. X tells Nan that Grayer likes steamed kale and coquilles St. Jacques.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then Clementine returned to the consideration of the lace in coquilles for her new evening dress.
From Winter Evening Tales by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
A number of Longman's Magazine contains an article on these coquilles, in which very many amusing blunders are quoted.
From Literary Blunders by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin
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