chocolatiere

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

   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...
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