gratinée
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "A heavy mushroom cream sauce spooned over French bread, the gratinée was like bonbons with a glass of Dom Perignon."
- "With a ladle, make a hole in the top of the gratinée, pour in the port mixture, and fold into the soup with the ladle."
- "To bake a dish until it bubbles and browns is to gratinée it, or to serve it au gratin."
- "When I was living with my sister Jean on the Hawkesbury River in New South Wales we would often turn the soup into a more substantial meal in cold weather by cooking it in gratinée form, which to many is the real French onion soup."
- "Onion soup is widely served all over France, sometimes gratinée, that is with a crust on top, sometimes just as a broth. It can be served in a large terrine, as well as in individual crock pots. In a brasserie or bistro, it is usually served gratinée."
Etymology
Borrowed from French gratinée.