raclette
Americannoun
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a dish made by heating a piece of cheese, as over a hearth, and scraping off the melted part onto a plate: served with boiled potatoes.
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the cheese used in making this dish.
noun
Etymology
Origin of raclette
Borrowed into English from French around 1930–35
Example Sentences
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A very late room service order of gooey raclette?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Heated debates held in the country's four national languages continued into early morning hours, with lawmakers fuelling themselves with raclette, hard boiled eggs left over from Easter and wine.
From Reuters ● Apr. 12, 2023
Next door, Bettina Roie’s guests are greeted with a sign asking them to show their vaccination certificates at her stand serving Swiss raclette, a popular melted cheese dish.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
Raclette NYC serves raclette, a Swiss cheese that is usually brought to the table heated and melting.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2019
They came for Wurzel bread and raclette and green bottles, the hard-to-find-in-America ones with malt and hops and “Quöllfrisch” stamped in blue above a painting of green hills rolling into distant, snow-dusted peaks.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2018
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