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🦐 Seafood in shell 🍽️ Shell-shaped dish
coquille

coquille

9.9
A small dish shaped like a scallop shell for serving seafood
  • noun
  • /koʊˈkiː/
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  • So tomorrow night, why don't you make him coquilles St. Jacques for dinner, hmm?

Examples

  • The chef served the delicious scallops in a beautifully crafted coquille that resembled a scallop shell.

  • At the restaurant, I ordered a special that featured shrimp elegantly arranged in a coquille.

  • For dinner, we enjoyed a rich seafood casserole baked in a traditional coquille dish.

Surface Forms

coquille singular
coquilles plural

Etymology

Coquille comes from French coquille, which means 'shell'. The serving dish got its name because it looks like a scallop shell you might find on the beach. That's why coquille now means a shell-shaped dish used for seafood.