Definitions
a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions
Word origin
Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.
Used in a sentence
“The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.”
“Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Small baking dish”7 letters
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