cocotte
See also: cocotté
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French cocotte.
Noun
cocotte (plural cocottes)
- small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
- (dated) demimonde, courtesan
- 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], OCLC 249388067:
- This one is a woman, with all a woman’s wit, combined with the heartlessness of a cocotte.
- 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, OCLC 878563136:
- […] she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.
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Related terms
- oeuf en cocotte
Further reading
- “cocotte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
French
Etymology
Onomatopoeic (of a hen's clucking).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.kɔt/
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Noun
cocotte f (plural cocottes)
- (child talk) chicken, hen
- (colloquial) honey, darling
- small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
- promiscuous woman, prostitute
- (Louisiana) vagina
- (Quebec) pinecone
- (Quebec) (construction) cone
Descendants
- → Catalan: cocota
- → English: cocotte
- → German: Kokotte
- → Greek: κοκότα (kokóta)
Verb
cocotte
- inflection of cocotter:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “cocotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.