callet

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caille (“girl”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkælət/

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callet (plural callets)

1. (obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
2. (obsolete) A scold or gossip.

• c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:

  He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

callet (third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)

1. (obsolete) To rail or scold.
   • c. 1630, Richard Brathwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys:

     hear her in her spleen
     Callet like a butter-quean

• “callet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Dark chocolate callets, alongside chunks of chocolate, and white chocolate pistoles.

From French callet.

callet (plural callets)

1. A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.
   • 2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN:

     You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.

   • 2017, Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, with Tara Wigley, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press:

     In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.

   • 2020, Everything Chocolate: A Decadent Collection of Morning Pastries, Nostalgic Sweets, and Showstopping Desserts, America's Test Kitchen, →ISBN:

     We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting.

A callet is smaller than a pistole, but the two terms are often used interchangeably.

• allect, lectal

callet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of calleō