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ramekin

UK/ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/US/ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/
nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: ramekins

A ramekin is a small round dish for baking one portion. Bake in a ramekin.

The straight sides are what let a souffle climb, which is the whole design. A ramekin is now used for sauces and olives far more than for anything baked.

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Definitions of ramekin

  1. 1nounramekinA small round dish for baking one portion.C1

    “Every ramekin in the cupboard was being used for paperclips.”

ramekin is a dish.

Where it comes from

French ramequin comes from a Dutch or Low German word for a small cheese dish.

  1. Low German

    ramken — cream

  2. Dutch

    rammeken — cheese dish

  3. French

    ramequin

  4. English, today

    ramekin

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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ramekin in the wild

  • A ramekin (,; also spelled ramequin) is a small dish used for culinary purposes.

    Ramekin

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.