ramekin

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• ramequin

Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”))^[1] or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream +‎ -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹæm(ɪ)kɪn/

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ramekin (plural ramekins)

1. (cooking) A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
   • 2023 July 15, Josh Noble, “‘Life is not a bowl of cherries’”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:

     The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful.

2. A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.

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