Ragueneau

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noun

A kind and generous pastry chef, especially one who is fat and who is a good companion or friend.

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Meanings

nounRagueneau (plural Ragueneaus)

plural Ragueneaus

  1. A kind and generous pastry chef, especially one who is fat and who is a good companion or friend.

    Claude Coutel is the Ragueneau of Parisian restaurants. His fixed-price meals inciuding wine are copious.

    1955, Paris, McGraw-Hill, page 137
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    I defend the pudgy Sancho Panzas, the rotund Ragueneaus, and the sentimental Samwise Gamgees of the world.

    2014, Dwight Longenecker, The Romance of Religion: Fighting for Goodness, Truth, and Beauty, page 87=88

Origin

From the character in Cyrano de Bergerac.

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Ragueneau. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ragueneau

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“Ragueneau.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Ragueneau. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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