callet
See also: Callet
English
Etymology 1
Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caille (“girl”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkælət/
Audio (Berkshire, England) (file)
Noun
callet (plural callets)
- (obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
- (obsolete) A scold or gossip.
Quotations
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.
Verb
callet (third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)
- (obsolete) To rail or scold.
- c. 1630, Richard Brathwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys:
- hear her in her spleen
Callet like a butter-quean
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References
- callet in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Etymology 2
Dark chocolate callets, alongside chunks of chocolate, and white chocolate pistoles.
From French callet.
Noun
callet (plural callets)
- A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.
- 2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN:
- You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.
- 2017, Yotam Ottolenghi; Helen Goh, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press:
- In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.
- 2020, Everything Chocolate: A Decadent Collection of Morning Pastries, Nostalgic Sweets, and Showstopping Desserts, America's Test Kitchen, →ISBN:
- We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting.
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Usage notes
A callet is smaller than a pistole, but the two terms are often used interchangeably.
Anagrams
- allect, lectal
Latin
Verb
callet
- third-person singular present active indicative of calleō