Ramekin
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
"The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful."
- 2 a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions wordnet
- 3 A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.
- 4 a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes wordnet
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More examples"The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful."
Etymology
Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.
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