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noun
a pielike dish consisting of an unsweetened pastry shell filled with a custard and usually containing cheese and other ingredients, as vegetables, seafood, or ham: spinach quiche.
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noun
a Mayan language of Guatemala.
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| an open savoury tart with a rich custard filling to which bacon, onion, cheese, etc, are added: quiche Lorraine | |
| [French, from German Kuchen cake] | |
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Word Origin & History
quiche
1949, from Fr. quiche (1810), from Ger. (Alsace-Lorraine dialect) Küche, dim. of Ger. Kuchen "cake." Became fashionable 1970s; became contemptible 1980s.
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Example sentences
Remove from oven and quickly arrange tomato and asparagus on top of the quiche in a wagon wheel pattern.
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