chaud-froid

noun

A type of food consisting of cooked meat or fish served cold in jelly or sauce.

OriginFrench chaud-froid →
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Meanings

nounchaud-froid (countable and uncountable, plural chaud-froids)

plural chaud-froids · alternative chaudfroid

  1. countableuncountableA type of food consisting of cooked meat or fish served cold in jelly or sauce.

    "Dorian," said Lord Henry at last, as the chaudfroid was being handed round, "what is the matter with you to-night? You are quite out of sorts."

    1890, Oscar Wilde, chapter XV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Origin

  1. Frenchchaud-froid
  2. Englishchaud-froid

Borrowed from French chaud-froid, literally "hot-cold".

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Chicago

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