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ramekin

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/

Definition of ramekin

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
    “Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.”
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noun

  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.”
    “Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.”
  2. A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.

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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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