cocotte

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French cocotte.

Noun

cocotte (plural cocottes)

1. small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
2. (dated) demimonde, courtesan
   • 1911, Bram Stoker, chapter XXI, in The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, , →OCLC:

     This one is a woman, with all a woman’s wit, combined with the heartlessness of a cocotte.

   • 1920, Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     […] she had had the novel experience of looking down from the restaurant terrace on an audience of "cocottes," and having her husband interpret to her as much of the songs as he thought suitable for bridal ears.

Related terms

• oeuf en cocotte

Further reading

• “cocotte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic (of a hen's clucking).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.kɔt/

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Noun

cocotte f (plural cocottes)

1. (child talk) chicken, hen
2. (colloquial) honey, darling
3. small casserole (pot) for individual portions, similar to a Dutch oven
4. promiscuous woman, prostitute
5. (Louisiana) vagina
6. (Quebec) pinecone
7. (Quebec) (construction) cone

Descendants

• → Catalan: cocota
• → English: cocotte
• → German: Kokotte
• → Greek: κοκότα (kokóta)

Verb

cocotte

1. inflection of cocotter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “cocotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.