coquille
noun
any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
coquilles
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pluralof coquille.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Mrs. X tells Nan that Grayer likes steamed kale and coquilles St. Jacques.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
These misprints are styled by the French coquilles, a word whose derivation M. Boutney, author of Dictionnaire de l'Argot des Typographes, is unable to explain after twenty years' search.
From Literary Blunders by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Not liking my first coquilles aux huitres, I made some private inquiries, and found that his chef had deserted him about the time of Napoleon's return from Elba.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
