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chouquette

chouquette noun: a small choux pastry made with dough sprinkled with sugar.

chouquette: a small choux pastry made with dough sprinkled with sugar
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Noun

chouquette (plural chouquettes)

  1. A small choux pastry made with dough sprinkled with sugar.
    • The chouquette clung to the most secret membranes of my palate, its sensual softness embraced my cheeks, its indecent elasticity caused it to congeal immediately in a homogeneous and unctuous paste which the sweetness of the sugar enhanced with a hint of perfection.2009, Muriel Barbery, translated by Alison Anderson, “The Illumination: Rue de Grenelle, the Bedroom”, in The Gourmet, London: Gallic Books, →ISBN, page 120
    • “Let me show you how to do the chouquettes. I keep thinking it'd be fun to cut this thin and stringy like spaghetti, drizzle on some chocolate and powder, and call them "chouquettis." But that's crazy! Yeah. [grunts, pants]” “Wait, Bertie, that's such a good idea. What if we made them your way?”...2019 May 3, Lee Sung Jin, “The New Bird” (14:47 from the start), in Tuca & Bertie, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Bertie Songthrush (Ali Wong)

Examples of chouquette in a sentence

  • “Let me show you how to do the chouquettes.2019 May 3, Lee Sung Jin, “The New Bird” (14:47 from the start), in Tuca & Bertie, season 1, episode 8, spoken by Bertie Songthrush (Ali...
  • When I pop into my favorite boulangerie for a snack, I know I’ll probably leave with a bag of chouquettes.2021, Molly Wilkinson, “Chouquettes”, in French Pastry Made Simple: Foolproof Recipes for Éclairs, Tarts, Macarons and More, Salem, Mass....
  • They include a food hall around the Palais de Tokyo selling chouquettes, bao and gazpacho alongside a virtual-reality swimming experience (85 euros, to start), […]2024 July 15, Priya Krishna, “France’s Approach to the Olympics: Food, With a Side of Games”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The...

Forms of chouquette

pluralchouquettes

Origin of chouquette

From French chouquette.

Questions about chouquette

What does chouquette mean?
Chouquette means a small choux pastry made with dough sprinkled with sugar.
How do you use chouquette in a sentence?
“Let me show you how to do the chouquettes.
What part of speech is chouquette?
Chouquette is a noun.
What is the plural of chouquette?
The plural of chouquette is chouquettes.

Words near chouquette in the dictionary

  1. chounse
  2. choupic
  3. choupics
  4. choupique
  5. choupiques
  6. chouquette
  7. chouquettes
  8. Chourajit
  9. Chourangi
  10. chourico
  11. chouricos

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