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anchovette

anchovette noun: a paste made from anchovies, used as a spread.

Noun

anchovette (uncountable)

  1. A paste made from anchovies, used as a spread.
    • Lunch was eaten at about 1.15 p.m., the food consisting of anchovette paste, bread and butter, tea, and, in one case, treacle.1925, Report of the Director-General of Public Health, New South Wales for the Year 1925, Sydney, published 1927, page 184
    • She did just think about her home sometimes, eating her anchovette sandwich, for instance, in the half-hour she took off for lunch.1955, Patrick White, chapter 16, in The Tree of Man, New York: Viking, page 258

Origin of anchovette

From anchovy + -ette; probably coined as a brand name, but compare French anchovette (“Engraulis ringens, a species of anchovy found off the coasts of Chile and Peru”), from Spanish anchoveta.

Questions about anchovette

What does anchovette mean?
Anchovette means a paste made from anchovies, used as a spread.
What part of speech is anchovette?
Anchovette is a noun.

Words near anchovette in the dictionary

  1. anchours
  2. anchoveta
  3. anchovetas
  4. anchovetta
  5. anchovettas
  6. anchovette
  7. anchovied
  8. anchovies
  9. anchovy
  10. anchovy paste
  11. anchovy pear

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