callet

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English

Etymology 1

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caille (“girl”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkælət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Noun

callet (plural callets)

(obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
(obsolete) A scold or gossip.

Quotations

c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :
He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink / Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

Verb

callet (third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)

(obsolete) To rail or scold.
- c. 1630, Richard Brathwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys:
  hear her in her spleen
  Callet like a butter-quean

References

“callet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Dark chocolate callets, alongside chunks of chocolate, and white chocolate pistoles.

From French callet.

Noun

callet (plural callets)

A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.
- 2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN:
  You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.
- 2017, Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, with Tara Wigley, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press:
  In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.
- 2020, Everything Chocolate: A Decadent Collection of Morning Pastries, Nostalgic Sweets, and Showstopping Desserts, America's Test Kitchen, →ISBN:
  We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting.

Usage notes

A callet is smaller than a pistole, but the two terms are often used interchangeably.

Anagrams

allect, lectal

Latin

Verb

callet

third-person singular present active indicative of calleō

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