courgette

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"Today on Big Kitchen With Food," he announced breathlessly last week, "we're making chocolate chip zucchini [courgette] muffins and we'll use ... um ... what is this?" he asks his mother, who is off screen.

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  1. noun Chiefly British A zucchini.

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  • "Today on Big Kitchen With Food," he announced breathlessly last week, "we're making chocolate chip zucchini [courgette] muffins and we'll use ... um ... what is this?" he asks his mother, who is off screen. —  WICKED THOUGHTS
  • Razor-thin slices of cold suckling pig with a ruff of leaves made a fine first-course salad and deep-fried squid and slender batons of courgette were crisp and dry. —  Evening Standard - Home
  • Like the guy who one day hits upon melting his Dairylea triangle into a bowl of courgette velouté and, after taking a gulp, realises with a sense of pride that, actually, it's really not bad! —  cafebabel.com
  • Branch: eggplant, maraschino cherries and zucchini (courgette) skin.
  • I don't like deep-frying but I'll make an exception for tortilla chips and for courgette flowers: —  Sicily Scene
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  1. French dialectal, diminutive of courge, gourd, from Old French cohourde, from Latin cucurbita.
 

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