chocolatière

Noun

chocolatière (plural chocolatières)

1. A pot for chocolate.
   • If you have got a chocolatière, whip the chocolate to make it frothy.1864, a French Lady [pseudonym], Cookery for English Households, London; Cambridge, Cambs.: Macmillan and Co., page 247
   • Between mid-1900 and a year later, Bing asked de Feure and Colonna to submit a series of designs, which were then manufactured into porcelains in Limoges. Their completed objects, exhibited at the Salons of 1901 and 1902 as well as at the 1902 Turin exhibition, included a large card tray (fig....1986, Gabriel P[aul] Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 190

   Synonyms:

   chocolate pot

2. A social gathering at which chocolate is served.
   • The sum of $222 had been raised by giving a lawn fete, a luncheon, a chocolatiere and a holiday offering, Dr. Fisher delivering a lecture on Japan.1889 April 11, “Close of the Presbytery. Visitors Gone Home—Notes of the Session—Talk on Japan. Delegates to the General Assembly—Words of Gratitude.”, in The Decatur Daily Republican, volume XVIII...
   • Would you be up-to-date? Then you must entertain your friends with a “chocolatiere,” the character of the refreshments suggesting the name. There must be hot chocolate to drink, little fancy cakes with chocolate icing, and in tiny paper boxes set the trim little bricks of chocolate and vanilla...1903 March 6, The Andover Townsman, volume XVI, number 21, Andover, Mass., page 2, column 2
3. A female producer of chocolate.
   • Thus, after one especially flagrant and vulgar intrigue with a chocolatière in Berlin, he can reflect that “your elegant mystics,” like Madame Guyon, are “of the opinion that sin should be forgotten as soon as possible, as being an idea too gross for the mind of a saint, and disturbing the exercise...1953 November 21, Leonard Bacon, “Young Man with a Tongue”, in Saturday Review, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, Inc., page 26, column 1
   • Libby remarked that the truffles were made for her by a chocolatière in Vienna whose identity she kept as confidential as her sins.1986, Gerald A[ustin] Browne, Stone 588, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, →OCLC, page 99