cocotte
See also: cocotté
English
Noun
cocotte (plural cocottes)
- small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
- (dated) demimonde, courtesan
- 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC:
- This one is a woman, with all a woman’s wit, combined with the heartlessness of a cocotte.
- 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- […] she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.
Related terms
Further reading
- “cocotte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
French
Etymology
Onomatopoeic (of a hen's clucking).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.kɔt/
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Noun
cocotte f (plural cocottes)
- (child talk) chicken, hen
- (colloquial) honey, darling
- small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
- promiscuous woman, prostitute
- (Louisiana) vagina
- (Quebec) pinecone
- (Quebec) (construction) cone
Verb
cocotte
- inflection of cocotter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cocotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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