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🦐 Seafood in shell 🍽️ Shell-shaped dish
coquille

coquille

1 9.9
A cooked seafood dish of scallops baked with cream and breadcrumbs in a shell
  • noun
  • /koʊˈkiː/
translation icon : coquille
  • She served a delightful coquille featuring scallops in a rich lobster sauce.
  • coquilles Saint-Jacques

Examples

  • Well, tonight he's getting coquilles Saint Jacques and Gressingham duck, and he better like it.

    Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025)

  • For dinner, we enjoyed a delicious coquille of scallops topped with creamy sauce and breadcrumbs.

  • Then for food, I think a Coquille St. Jacques first.

    Moulin Rouge (1952)

  • I said, "My mother's making coquilles Saint-Jacques."

    Fiction book (2000)

  • I hate coquilles dry.

    The Nanny Diaries (2007)

  • The restaurant's specialty was a coquille filled with shrimp and accompanied by a side salad.

Synonyms

coquilles Saint-Jacques
vscoquille
9.9

Scallops baked in a creamy white wine sauce and served in scallop shells

is a more general shell seafood dish often with cream and breadcrumbs

Surface Forms

coquille singular
coquilles plural

Etymology

Coquille comes from French coquille, meaning 'shell'. Cooks often put scallops or other seafood into a shell and bake it, so the name moved from the shell to the food inside. That's why coquille can mean the seafood dish served in a shell.