Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small skewer or spit used to broil or roast meat, fish, or vegetables.
- n. Food broiled or roasted on a small skewer or spit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A skewer to stick meat on, used in cookery.
Wiktionary
- n. small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled
- n. food cooked on such a device
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Cookery) A small spit or skewer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a small spit or skewer
Etymologies
- French diminutive of broche, a spit (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French, diminutive of broche, spit; see broach1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“My brochette of scallops lay on a giant raviolo, soggy in a seasick green sauce.”
The Wall Street Journal: How to Be a Gourmet in the Paris Stores
“You can get creative (after all, that's what pintxo/tapas culinary culture is all about) or stick with traditional favorites like the "Gilda," a guindilla (Spanish chile pepper), an anchovy and a green olive speared with a toothpick or a pawn and bacon brochette.”
The Huffington Post: OneTravel: Global Holiday Cocktails and Appetizers
“After another couple of minutes, I touched and gently pressed the surface again and felt some resistance and knew that it was time to stick a tester I use a long metal brochette/kabob spear in.”
The Huffington Post: Jamie Schler: Decadent Chocolate Spice Cake for the Holidays
“Over shrimp brochette, another defends the coup, in spite of its violence.”
“My chasseurs were toasted en brochette and sent tumbling back through my lines.”
“Then we had shrimp brochette and a cherry tomato salad.”
“If Chris Wyser-Pratt and Pinch Sulzberger were indeed talking about "making quenelles de brochette," either their French or their cooking is in bad need of remediation.”
“I was still recovering when we were served our first amuse-bouche, the tiniest gamba brochette standing in a dish of minced cucumbers, peppers, and olive oil, and leaning against a speck of endive.”
“Our sleeping arrangement was such that we were bedded à la brochette* -- in a loft, along a tight line of mattresses with a pause every fourth sleeper wherein there was a landing with its ladder.”
“Per brochette: 248 Calories, 16 g Fat, 2.3 g Sat, 172 mg Chol, 0 g Fiber, 23 g Pro, 1 g Carb, 409 mg Sodium”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘brochette’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
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-ette
diminutive; female; substitute
dinette, suffragette, leatherette, baguette, bachelorette, brochette, casette, croquette, etiquette, gazette, launderette, leaflette and 2 more...
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vari-ettes
ranchette, vinette, towelette, rosette, septette, silhouette, pirouette, roomette, roulette, omelette, majorette, gazette and 52 more...
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