Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A dish consisting of cooked lobster meat mixed with a cream sauce, put into a lobster shell, sprinkled with cheese, and browned.
Wiktionary
- n. A creamy, cheesy mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and brandy or sherry, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven-browned cheese crust.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a dish of lobster meat cooked with a rich creamy wine sauce, stuffed back into the lobster shell, sprinkled with grated cheese, and browned.
WordNet 3.0
- n. diced lobster mixed with Mornay sauce placed back in the shell and sprinkled with grated cheese and browned
Etymologies
- After French Thermidor, the 11th month of the calendar used during the French Revolution : Greek thermē, heat; see therm + Greek dōron, gift; see dō- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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