coquille
See also: Coquille
English
seafood served in a coquille
Etymology
Borrowed from French coquille. See also cockle.
Noun
coquille (plural coquilles)
- A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
- A scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.
- A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.
French
Etymology
From a combination of Vulgar Latin *conchilia (from Latin conchylium) with coccum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ.kij/
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Noun
coquille f (plural coquilles)
- shell
- (shell-shaped) dish; scallop
- typo, misprint
- Synonyms: bourdon, faute de frappe, mastic
- (sports) jockstrap, athletic protector; groin guard, box, cup (protection for the male genitals)
- (medicine) vacuum mattress (for spinal immobilization)
- (medicine) egg crate mattress (for prevention of bedsores)
Related terms
- coquillage
- coquillard
- coquillère
- coquille Saint-Jacques
- coquille vide
- coquillier
- sortir de sa coquille
Further reading
- “coquille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French
Noun
coquille f (oblique plural coquilles, nominative singular coquille, nominative plural coquilles)
- shell (hard protective outer layer of some animals)
Descendants
- Middle English: cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle
- → English: cockle
- French: coquille
- → English: coquille