casserole

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  1. noun A dish, usually of earthenware, glass, or cast iron, in which food is both baked and served.
  2. noun Food prepared and served in such a dish.
  3. noun Chemistry A small-handled, deep porcelain crucible used for heating and evaporating.

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  • One bite of meatloaf or tuna casserole, and still be chewing it.
  • Tonight she was making a chicken and vegetable casserole, and No.3 grabbed a paring knife and joined in. —  FSF,July2008
  • There was nobody around to scold him and he was too tired to heat up the soup or the casserole, much less to eat it. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • He wasn't sure who had made the casserole, although he would have bet it wasn't the Velez sisters. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • When the casserole was ready, they sat stiffly at table together, forking pieces of meat, making awkward stabs at conversation, avoiding the one topic on both their minds. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 06 - June 2002
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  1. French, saucepan, diminutive of Old French casse, ladle, pan, from Old Provençal cassa, from Medieval Latin cattia, dipper, from Greek kuathion, diminutive of kuathos, ladle.

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  1. = German kasserol = Danish kasserolle = Italian casseruola = Provencal cassarola, from French casserole, a stew-pan (also dial. castrole, later G. dial, kastrol, kastrolle = Swedish kastrull = Dutch kastrol), diminutive of Old French casse = Catalan cassa = Italian cazza(Middle Latin caza, cazia, cazeola, catiola), a crucible, ladle, = Spanish cazo = Portuguese caço, a frying-pan, saucepan, from Old High German chezzī (*kazzī), a kettle, with diminutive chezzil = English kettle, q. v.
 

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