réchauffé
Americannoun
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réchauffés
plural
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a warmed-up dish of food.
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anything old or stale brought into service again.
noun
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warmed-up leftover food
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old, stale, or reworked material
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of réchauffé
First recorded in 1795–1805; from French, past participle of réchauffer, equivalent to r(e)- re- + échauffer “to warm”; see chafe
Vocabulary lists containing rechauffe
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The drama is a mere réchauffé of Massinger's Fatal Dowry.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
The English groan for something better than the perpetual réchauffé of their literature.
From How to Write Letters (Formerly The Book of Letters) A Complete Guide to Correct Business and Personal Correspondence by Mary Owens Crowther
How could I blame her for preferring Captain Carey's love to my réchauffé affections?
From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton
The last lecture on the recent German writers is a mere réchauffé of the Essays.
From Thomas Carlyle by John Nichol
The piece is a réchauffé of a mediæval farce, which has the credit of being the first play not a "mystery" or a miracle piece in the records of the French drama.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
What vulgarity, what pointless joking, what pitiable attempts to serve up old impromptus réchauffés!
From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Arthur Symons
As it is, when it has become a little forgotten, the quarterly reviewers, or their representatives, of the twenty-first century will be able to make endless réchauffés of it.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
Many of the dishes prepared in the chafing-dish are réchauffés of cold cooked meats, including game and fish.
From Salads, Sandwiches and Chafing-Dish Dainties With Fifty Illustrations of Original Dishes by Janet McKenzie Hill
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