cocotte

 

Borrowed from French cocotte.

• IPA^(key): /kɔˈkɔt/
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• Rhymes: -ɔt

cocotte (plural cocottes)

1. small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
2. (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.

• oeuf en cocotte

• “cocotte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Onomatopoeic (of a hen's clucking).

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kɔt/

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cocotte f (plural cocottes)

1. (child talk) chicken, hen
2. (colloquial) honey, darling
3. small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
4. promiscuous woman, prostitute
5. (Louisiana) vagina
6. (Quebec) pinecone
7. (Quebec) (construction) cone

• → Catalan: cocota
• → English: cocotte
• → German: Kokotte
• → Greek: κοκότα (kokóta)

cocotte

1. inflection of cocotter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “cocotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.