BROCHETTE

brochette

(noun) a small spit or skewer

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

brochette (plural brochettes)

small skewer or spit on which small pieces of meat, fish or vegetables are roasted or broiled

food cooked on such a device

Anagrams

• Boettcher

Source: Wiktionary


Bro`chette" (bro`shet"), n. [F., dim. of broche. See Broach, n.] (Cookery)

Definition: A small spit or skewer.

– En bro`chette" (än) [F.], on a brochette; skewered.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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