chocolate

plural chocolates

1. uncountableA food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

   Chocolate is a very popular treat.

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   In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 62

2. uncountableA drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

   Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;...

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Another London Life”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 168

3. countableA single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

   He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.

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   Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 242

4. uncountableA dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

   As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.

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   A small boy clutching a Negro woman’s hand walked toward us. He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.

   1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC

5. countableA cat having a chocolate-colored coat.
6. countableslangA black person.

   “How is my sexy chocolate?” Mark says on the other end.

   2011, Ella Campbell, Torn: The Melissa Williams Story, →ISBN, page 69

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   "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.

   1967, James David Horan, The Right Image: A Novel of the Men who Make Candidates, page 73

   1. slanguncountableBlackness.

      I can consume as much of you as I want to without gaining weight. Sexy chocolate is what you are.

      2009, Evangeline Holloway, The Reincarnation of Love, →ISBN, page 83

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      “Yes Lucas, you're some fine sexy chocolate”, she whispered, her long dark hair covering her face and the curves bursting out of her dress.

      2012, Harry Davis, My Name Is Lucas, →ISBN

comparative more chocolate · superlative most chocolate

1. Made of or containing chocolate.
2. Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
3. slangBlack (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).

   She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.

   2005, Patrick Goines, Unfinished Business, page 29

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   Therefore, African Americans complexion range from fair to mahogony. When a baby is born, it's always a mystery of the hue of the child. Sometimes the child will be as white as the slave owner or as chocolate as a great great grandparent.

   2010, Delores J. Dillard, Papua, New Guinea, 1983, page 27

   If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?

   2011, Stephanie Stokes Oliver, Daily Cornbread, page 200

present singular third person chocolates · participle present chocolating · participle past chocolated · past chocolated

1. raretransitiveTo add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
2. rarebiologyTo treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

   It is a chocolated blood agar but here whole horse blood is used.

   2000, Ochei Et Al, Medical Laboratory Science : Theory And Practice, page 843

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   Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.

   1992 August 28, R. Rennie, “Laboratory and Clinical Evaluations of Media for the Primary Isolation of Haemophilus Species”, in Journal of Clinical Microbiology, volume 30, number 8, page 1917

   The mixture is incubated at 75°C until chocolating has taken place.

   2003, Mark A. Herbert, Haemophilus influenzae Protocols, page 73