Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

coronation chicken

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: 3.42 in modern English

Syllables: coro-na-tion chick-en
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Everybody loves coronation chicken if it is made well, but it has become a bit of a low-rent classic, alongside prawn cocktail! Sadly, there are numerous bad versions of the dish—pale shadows of the real thing invented 50 years ago by Constance Spry and Rosemary Hume of the Cordon Bleu School in London to mark the coronation celebrations of 1953."

Etymology

Created for the coronation banquet of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

Usage

Uncountable

Phrases

coronation sauce

Frequently Paired Words

coronation sauce

Questions

What does coronation chicken mean?: Cold pre-cooked chicken meat in a creamy mayonnaise-based sauce with herbs and spices, used as a sandwich filling or in salads.
Where does coronation chicken come from?: Created for the coronation banquet of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

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