petite marmite
- noun
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marmita
- For lunch, they ordered petite marmite, brimming with vegetables and tender pieces of beef.
Examples
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The restaurant's specialty is petite marmite, served piping hot in individual bowls.
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She enjoyed a bowl of petite marmite before the main course arrived.
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The chef prepared a delicious petite marmite for the guests.
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Would you like to try the petite marmite at this restaurant?
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For lunch, they ordered petite marmite, brimming with vegetables and tender pieces of beef.
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She enjoyed a bowl of petite marmite before the main course arrived.
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The restaurant's specialty is petite marmite, served piping hot in individual bowls.
Synonyms
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A thick soup or stew made from vegetables and sometimes meat, often eaten in the past
A large heavy pot used for cooking soup or stew
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Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'petite' as ‘small’ and 'marmite' as a cooking pot can directly infer a small cooking-pot dish; the meaning ‘a rich soup served in a small individual pot’ is compositionally derived from the constituents. The construction follows straightforward noun phrase composition (size adjective + container), which is cross-linguistically common and therefore immediately comprehensible.
Etymology
Petite marmite comes from French words: petite means 'small' and marmite means 'cooking pot'. It originally described a rich soup or stew cooked and served in its own little pot, so today it refers to 'a small pot of hearty soup' served for one.