cocotte

Oct. 20th, 2005 07:04 am
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cocotte - n., a shallow baking dish usually with one or two handles; a prostitute.


In the latter sense, from the French for hen. In the former sense, probably the same, but I can't confirm that. The former is the rarer sense, but it's the one that caught my attention.

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