écuelle
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French écuelle. Doublet of scuttle and scutella.
Noun edit
écuelle (plural écuelles)
- A two-handled bowl for soup or porridge.
Verb edit
écuelle (third-person singular simple present écuelles, present participle écuelling, simple past and past participle écuelled)
- (transitive) To rub the surface of (fruit) in a bowl to extract essential oil
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French escuele, from Latin scutella (in Vulgar Latin influenced by scūtum), diminutive of Latin scutra.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
écuelle f (plural écuelles)
Further reading edit
- “écuelle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.