bouchée
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bouchée (“mouthful”).
Noun
bouchée (plural bouchées)
- A small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture, served as an hors d'oeuvre.
French
Etymology
bouche + -ée, possibly Vulgar Latin *buccata, from Latin bucca. Compare Italian boccata, Romanian bucată; cf. also Portuguese and Spanish bocado.
Noun
bouchée f (plural bouchées)
Derived terms
Participle
bouchée
- feminine singular of the past participle of boucher
Further reading
- “bouchée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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