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ramequin

ramequin is the archaic form of ramekin.

Meaning of ramekin

Noun

ramekin (plural ramekins)

  1. A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
    • The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
  2. A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.

Forms of ramequin

pluralramequins

Origin of ramequin

Borrowed from French ramequin.

Questions about ramequin

What is ramequin the archaic form of?
Ramequin is the archaic form of ramekin.

Words near ramequin in the dictionary

  1. raments
  2. ramentum
  3. ramenya
  4. ramenyas
  5. rameous
  6. ramequin
  7. ramequins
  8. Ramer
  9. Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm
  10. Ramero
  11. Rameros

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