Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A censer; a vessel with a pierced cover for burning perfumes.
- noun A vessel or box for holding perfumes and provided with a perforated cover to permit the diffusion of them.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a box, or vase, with a perforated cover to emit perfumes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A box or vase with a perforated cover to emit
perfumes .
Etymologies
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French
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Examples
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Restaurant recipe: Harrods' Arctic Char with dill butter and morel cassolette
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Stevie Parle 2011
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I love chunks of Perugina sausage in sweet pepper-and-onion ragout with two panisses, or chickpea-flour fries; black truffle-accented grilled diver scallops in brown-butter jus; and a cassolette of Provençal vegetables.
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Seafood cassolette is a hearty indulgence of shrimp, scallops, red snapper, lobster, lump crab and peas in a creamy au gratin sauce with a splash of champagne.
miami.com - 2009
utarcher commented on the word cassolette
From Swordplay Blog, June 25, 2008:
"A French slang term comparing the natural scent of the vulva with a casserole of food prepared and served in a container of that name."
From the Joy of Sex:
"The woman's cassolette is her secret weapon to an extent American women don't seem to realize--French women know better. Some men respond violently to it without realizing the fact; it's also the ideal perfume fixative, and a touch behind the ears at a dance, in advance of, or instead of, bottle perfume can be deadly... Wash with white soap, and here as everywhere treat deodorants the way a chef would treat deflavorants. How the hippie generation thought you could live the good sex life without washing defeats explanation."
August 28, 2009