callet

C3A1L1L1E1T1
/ˈkælət/

noun

A trull or prostitute.

Scrabble 8

Meanings

callet1

nouncallet (plural callets)

plural callets

  1. obsoleteA trull or prostitute.
  2. obsoleteA scold or gossip.
verbcallet (third-person singular simple present callets, present participle calleting, simple past and past participle calleted)

present singular third person callets · participle present calleting · participle past calleted · past calleted

  1. obsoleteTo rail or scold.

    hear her in her spleen Callet like a butter-quean

    c. 1630, Richard Brathwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys

callet2

nouncallet (plural callets)

plural callets

  1. A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.

    You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.

    2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.

    2017, Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, with Tara Wigley, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press

    We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting.

    2020, Everything Chocolate: A Decadent Collection of Morning Pastries, Nostalgic Sweets, and Showstopping Desserts, America's Test Kitchen, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

callet · noun, verb

  1. Irishcaile“girl”
  2. Frenchcaillette“a frivolous gossip”
  3. Englishcallet

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).

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callet · noun

  1. Frenchcallet
  2. Englishcallet

From French callet.

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