coquille
[ kop-ee-reed-oh-keel; French kaw-kee-yuh ]
/ ˈkɒp iˌrid oʊˈkil; French kɔˈki yə /
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.
Origin of coquille
< French: shell (of a mollusk, nut, etc.). See
cockle1
Words nearby coquille
coquette,
coquettish,
coquilhatville,
coquilla nut,
coquillage,
coquille,
coquilles st. jacques,
coquimbite,
coquina,
coquito,
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Example sentences from the Web for coquilles
Then Clementine returned to the consideration of the lace in coquilles for her new evening dress.
Winter Evening Tales |Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
British Dictionary definitions for coquilles
coquille
/ (French kɔkij) /
noun
any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shell
Coquilles 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
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