Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A cooking device equipped with a rotating spit on which meat or other food is roasted.
  • noun A shop or restaurant where meats are roasted to order.

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  • noun A cooking device on which food is roasted on a rotating spit
  • noun a shop or restaurant selling food cooked in this manner

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats
  • noun an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French rôtisserie, from Old French rostisserie, from rostir, to roast, of Germanic origin.]

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Examples

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  • Latin American rotisserie chicken is also becoming more popular, as young people in particular look for 'comfort food with a twist', that they also perceive to be healthy.

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  • The first I call the rotisserie metaphor: one doesn't just do poorly on an exam: he or she (in vaguely increasing degrees of heat) gets smoked, lit, torched, burned, toasted, fried, baked, roasted, or sizzled.

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  • Everything on the menu was good, and inexpensive, but I zeroed in on their specialty, pollos a la brasa, aka rotisserie chicken.

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  • Everything on the menu was good, and inexpensive, but I zeroed in on their specialty, pollos a la brasa, aka rotisserie chicken.

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  • They completely rebuilt it, what's called a rotisserie rebuild, from the ground up, with noted hot rod designer Chip Foose being the design chief of it.

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  • We used a wood burning oven and a rotisserie which is where the inspiration for the pizza we make at Otto came from.

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  • We used a wood burning oven and a rotisserie which is where the inspiration for the pizza we make at Otto came from.

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  • In addition, Suzuki will showcase a Road Race Motorsports Kizashi with Road Race's signature handling and performance mods; a "rotisserie" display showcasing the Kizashi's underbody performance hardware; a body-in-white Kizashi display showing the vehicle's world-class construction; and an Equator concept truck, with off-road upgrades provided by ICON Vehicle Dynamics and the Corona Cartel.

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  • The car's body is on the shop's "rotisserie," or rack, which can rotate 360 degrees and stop at any angle.

    news | OS | http://www.ocala.com 2008

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