ramekin

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Two different styles of ramekin

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Etymology

Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (cheese dish) (compare Dutch rameken (toasted bread))[1] or Low German ramken (cream), equivalent to ream +‎ -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.

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Noun

ramekin (plural ramekins)

  1. (cooking) A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
    • 2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      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.
  2. A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.

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  1. ^ Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 2009, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.

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