ramekin
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”))[1] or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin.
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Noun edit
ramekin (plural ramekins)
- (cooking) A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
- 2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
- 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.
- A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.
Translations edit
Small dish for baking in oven
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References edit
- ^ Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 2009, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.