chocolatière
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A social gathering at which chocolate is served.
Example Sentences
- "If you have got a chocolatière, whip the chocolate to make it frothy."
- "Between mid-1900 and a year later, Bing asked de Feure and Colonna to submit a series of designs, which were then manufactured into porcelains in Limoges. Their completed objects, exhibited at the Salons of 1901 and 1902 as well as at the 1902 Turin exhibition, included a large card tray (fig. 195), a container for matches (colorpl. 44), and a number of porcelain vases (fig. 1 96, colorpls. 45, 46). By 1902 an ink pot and a chocolatière (colorpls. 47, 48) joined the group along with several vases and pitchers."
- "A chocolatière, the design attributed to Lucien Bonvallet, manufactured by Cardheilac, circa 1895-1900, waisted cylinder decorated with repoussé formalised leaves, 8½in. high."
- "A later dinner meant that there was more emphasis on breakfast, which became a meal in itself rather than a way of getting by until dinner, and the upper classes took to convening at ten in the morning to eat various kinds of bread, toast and plain cakes accompanied by coffee or chocolate. It is in this context that beautiful silver and porcelain chocolatieres were produced."
- "Precisely because a consumer in the imperial Chinese court could order the highest-quality vase, or in fifteenth-century Samarkand could order a vast dish to serve large pieces of mutton, or in sixteenth-century Portugal could order a dish with his crest emblazoned under the glaze, or in seventeenth-century Holland could order a gin bottle or a butter dish, or in eighteenth-century Mexico could order a chocolatiere, Jingdezhen’s factories were so in demand. Jingdezhen’s wares sold globally because the producers could respond to consumer demand and make items that were completely alien to local taste and meaningless in local sensibility."
- "The chest is flanked by a chocolatière with a wooden implement to stir the chocolate on one side, and a two-handled Talavera pottery jar on the other."
Etymology
From French chocolatière.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: chocolatière