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chaud-froid

chaud-froid noun: a type of food consisting of cooked meat or fish served cold in jelly or sauce.

Noun

chaud-froid (countable and uncountable, plural chaud-froids)

  1. A type of food consisting of cooked meat or fish served cold in jelly or sauce.
    • "Dorian," said Lord Henry at last, as the chaudfroid was being handed round, "what is the matter with you to-night? You are quite out of sorts."1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Forms of chaud-froid

pluralchaud-froids
alternative formchaudfroid

Origin of chaud-froid

Borrowed from French chaud-froid, literally "hot-cold".

Questions about chaud-froid

What does chaud-froid mean?
Chaud-froid means a type of food consisting of cooked meat or fish served cold in jelly or sauce.
What part of speech is chaud-froid?
Chaud-froid is a noun.
What is the plural of chaud-froid?
The plural of chaud-froid is chaud-froids.

Words near chaud-froid in the dictionary

  1. Chaucerians
  2. Chaucerism
  3. Chaucerisms
  4. Chauchat
  5. Chauchats
  6. chaud-froid
  7. chaud-froids
  8. chaud-medley
  9. chaudfroid
  10. chaudfroids
  11. chaudhari

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