Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small cake of minced food, such as poultry, vegetables, or fish, that is usually coated with bread crumbs and fried in deep fat.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mass of finely minced and seasoned meat or fish (or rice, potato, etc.) made into a small ball or other regular form, and fried crisp and brown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Cookery) A ball of minced meat, fowl, rice, vegetables, or other ingredients, often in a thick white sauce, highly seasoned, breaded, and fried.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Minced, cooked,
food (usuallymeat orvegetables ), which is fried in deep fat and sometimes sprinkled withbread crumbs .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun minced cooked meats (or vegetables) in thick white sauce; breaded and deep-fried
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The croquette, which is served with many of the available brunch items until 3 p.m. on Sundays, was a deep-fried, golden round of creamy mashed potatoes.
Richmond.com - Main 2008
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Spellers were tripped up on words such as croquette, mahi-mahi, klompen and cadenza.
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O troféu era um pires com um croquette em realidade aumentada.
Croquette Awards Red 2009
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But we were served one tiny fish croquette type thing and a few chips.
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The trophy was an augmented reality croquette on a plate.
Archive 2009-08-01 Red 2009
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O troféu era um pires com um croquette em realidade aumentada.
Archive 2009-08-01 Red 2009
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A trio of lamb chops with properly crisp ribbons of fat probably didn't need the company of a croquette the size of a hockey puck made from long, slow-braised shoulder, but we weren't sorry to see it there, or for that matter the bronzed disc of boulangerie potatoes.
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Halloumi sandwiches with homemade half-wholemeal buns, lettuce, onion and tomato, and a marble box of falafel, croquette balls, brussel sprouts and a cherry tomato.
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To start there is a crumbly biscuit of aged cheddar with a dollop of broccoli purée, followed by a fingernail-sized deep-fried croquette of smoked eel with an intense pommes purée.
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My favourites are their baked veggies - lots of potato, asparagus and carrot - and their Hokkaido Danshaku potato croquette, which are wonderfully soft and creamy.
bilby commented on the word croquette
Hold the phone. Is 'fried in deep fat' more or less equivalent to 'deep fried in fat' or is deep doing something else here?
March 21, 2019