croquette
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noun
a small cake or ball of minced meat, poultry, or fish, or of rice, potato, or other food, often coated with beaten egg and bread crumbs, and fried in deep fat.
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| —n | |
| a savoury cake of minced meat, fish, etc, fried in breadcrumbs | |
| [C18: from French, from croquer to crunch, of imitative origin] | |
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Croquette
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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Word Origin & History
croquette
1706, from Fr., from croquer "to crunch."
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Example sentences
To rice croquette mixture add two tablespoons powdered sugar and grated rind one-half lemon.
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