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noun
1.
a small broiler with a motor-driven spit, for barbecuing fowl, beef, etc.
verb (used with object)
2.
to broil on a rotisserie.
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Origin:
1865–70; < French: roasting place
1865–70; < French: roasting place
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Word Origin & History
rotisserie
1868, "restaurant where meat is roasted on a spit," from Fr. rôtisserie "shop selling cooked food, restaurant," from prp. stem of rôtir "to roast," from O.Fr. rostir (see roast). As an in-home cooking apparatus, attested from 1953. Manufacturers (or their copy
EXPAND writers) back-formed a verb, rotiss (1958). Rotisserie league (1980), a form of fantasy baseball, is based on La Rotisserie, the Manhattan restaurant where it was conceived.
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