Definitions
Etymologies
- From French couverture. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Professional pastry chefs use a type of chocolate known as couverture, which sets up nicely because it contains more cocoa butter than regular chocolate.”
“Guests then take the prepared couverture and learn about tempering, molding and packaging.”
The Huffington Post: Regina Varolli: Dragées, Demos and Dragons at the Chocolate Show NYC
“Français · Madagascar: Les médias, nouveaux et traditionnels, discutent de la couverture de la crise”
Global Voices in English » Madagascar: Traditional and New Media Discuss Crisis Reporting
“Even as late as the nineteenth century, the British judge Lord William Blackstone was still defending the essence of couverture in his courtroom, insisting that a married woman did not really exist as a legal entity.”
The Huffington Post: Thoughts on International Law in US Courts: Our Constitution or Blackstone's?
“To further enforce controls over wealth management and stabilization, courts all across Europe were now seriously upholding the legal notion of couverture - that is, the belief that a woman's individual civil existence is erased the moment she marries.”
The Huffington Post: Thoughts on International Law in US Courts: Our Constitution or Blackstone's?
“All this conspires to make the cost of Venezuelan Criollo couverture chocolate easily over double the cost of other blends.”
“Robinson is likely referring to the practice of couverture, which severely restricted womens legal rights.”
“I'm literally dying to get hold of couverture chocolate in bulk and all I've got so far are those measly 200g blocks.”
“La je vois ecris sur la couverture noire un gros tampon admlinistratif rouge "BR: Survival Program”
“I used E.Guittard 72% bittersweet couverture wafers.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘couverture’.
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Chocolate Passion
Words related to my favorite addiction, chocolate!
chocolate, algarroba, alkali, bean, bittersweet, bloom, cacao, cocoa, tempering, cocoa powder, fermentation, pod and 50 more...
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chairmanK's list
eristic, eidetic, reticular, legshow, phytomorphic, ophidian, autumnal, frisson, rhizomatic, pulchritude, lubricious, veridical and 110 more...
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mandarine's Words
antepenultimate, metonymy, synecdoche, pop, kern, inherit, clique, scrumptious, macerate, murmur, kerning, veranda and 1068 more...
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srboisvert's Words
couverture, poffertjes, naif, endermatic, prepense, aspic, otalgia, curettage,, florid, piffling, pillock, mow and 164 more...
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chocolatier
Words related to the arts of chocolate-making and chocolatiering.
couverture, terroir, mouthfeel, single-origin, presscake, cacao, chocolatier, trinitario, criollo-trinitario, criollo, arriba, forastero and 2 more...
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word set9
spongiform, stochastic, bibliobibuli, gangliest, macadamization, orchidaceous, fructiferous, phatically, persiflage, caliginous, helical, tracery and 72 more...
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Food of the Gods
Indeed it is. Words related to chocolate production. :-)
chocolate, cocoa, cacao, semisweet, bittersweet, nib, theobromine, theobroma cacao, bean, criollo, forastero, trinitario and 27 more...
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Factual
Bovril, grit, croquette, denizen, symbiosis, alimony, parasol, ajwain, sherbet, feline, billet-doux, regicide and 72 more...
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mabisa's Words
couverture, absquatulate, abscond, mimsy, jest, brevity, base, saccade, desuetude, pygalgia, sangfroid
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dynamite's Words
avant-garde, secret, shutters, brassiere, devanagari, lotus, composition, film, vanguard, ultra, brocade, voile and 41 more...
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Chocolate
making, working with, and eating
bloom, snap, nib, mould, temper, liquor, mucilage, pod, clubbed, destoned, organoleptic, conching and 6 more...
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candy
mint, bonbon, taffy, sweets, sugarcoat, dragee, fudge, candyfloss, sugarplum, truffle, fondant, comfit and 30 more...
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dkuo's Words
fuzzy, retrograde, abscond, deciduous, portmanteau, bellicose, couverture, poof, squelch, amalgam, hippopotamus, legume and 7 more...
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French Cooking Words
couverture, gateau, courgette, aubergine, foie gras, demitasse, pamplemousse, meringue
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cuisiney
Tweets
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reesetee Chocolate that contains at least 32% cocoa butter, usually used as a confectionary covering. Jul 12, 2007