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coquille

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.83 in modern English

Syllables
co-quille
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.

noun

A scallop shell or a dish shaped like one, especially when used to serve the aforementioned food.

noun

A form of ruching used as a dress trimming or for neckwear, named from the manner in which it is gathered or fulled.

name

A city, the county seat of Coos County, Oregon, United States.

noun

A member of a Native American people who historically lived in the Coquille River watershed and nearby coast south of Coos Bay.

Etymology

Borrowed from French coquille. See also cockle.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

coquilles (plural) Ko-Kwel (alternative) Ko'Kwel (alternative)

Questions

What does coquille mean?
A meal, especially a seafood dish, served in an actual scallop shell or a dish (container) shaped like a shell.
Where does coquille come from?
It is traced to French.

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