chocolates

Noun

chocolate (countable and uncountable, plural chocolates)

1. (uncountable) A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
   • Chocolate is a very popular treat.
2. (uncountable) A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
   • Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;...1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 168
3. (countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
   • He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
4. (uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
   • As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
5. (countable) A cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
6. (countable, slang) A black person.
   • "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73

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