Definitions
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- noun
chocolate prepared forcovering cakes andsweets ; such a covering. - noun Alternative spelling of
coverture .
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- noun chocolate that contains at least 32 percent cocoa butter
Etymologies
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Examples
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Professional pastry chefs use a type of chocolate known as couverture, which sets up nicely because it contains more cocoa butter than regular chocolate.
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Guests then take the prepared couverture and learn about tempering, molding and packaging.
Regina Varolli: Dragées, Demos and Dragons at the Chocolate Show NYC Regina Varolli 2011
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Guests then take the prepared couverture and learn about tempering, molding and packaging.
Regina Varolli: Dragées, Demos and Dragons at the Chocolate Show NYC Regina Varolli 2011
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Guests then take the prepared couverture and learn about tempering, molding and packaging.
Regina Varolli: Dragées, Demos and Dragons at the Chocolate Show NYC Regina Varolli 2011
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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 2009
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Guests then take the prepared couverture and learn about tempering, molding and packaging.
Regina Varolli: Dragées, Demos and Dragons at the Chocolate Show NYC Regina Varolli 2011
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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.
Thoughts on International Law in US Courts: Our Constitution or Blackstone's? Tricia Perry 2010
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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.
Tricia Perry: Thoughts on International Law in US Courts: Our Constitution or Blackstone's? 2010
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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.
Tricia Perry: Thoughts on International Law in US Courts: Our Constitution or Blackstone's? 2010
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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.
Thoughts on International Law in US Courts: Our Constitution or Blackstone's? Tricia Perry 2010
reesetee commented on the word couverture
Chocolate that contains at least 32% cocoa butter, usually used as a confectionary covering.
July 12, 2007