chocolaterie

plural chocolateries

1. A chocolate shop.

   The sheer nerve of the woman—opening a chocolaterie just in time for Lent.

   2000, Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat: A Screenplay, New York, N.Y.: Talk Miramax Books, →ISBN, page 38

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   It is telling, though, that there remains a fine line between the chocolaterie and the church. Vianne never enters the church, and the priest never tastes the chocolates in the chocolaterie.

   2005, Teresa Berger, Fragments of Real Presence: Liturgical Traditions in the Hands of Women, New York, N.Y.: Herder & Herder, →ISBN, pages 202–203

   I worshipped her body with mine and tasted every single part of her with the wild satisfaction of a gourmand in a chocolaterie.

   2008, Conor Bowman, The Last Estate, Dublin: Clockwork Press, →ISBN, page 61

   “[…] A great sketching spot on this usually very crowded street offers itself in a chocolaterie on the top floor of the KaDeWe shop center.” — Olga Prudnikova

   2012, Gabriel Campanario, The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World, Beverly, Mass.: Quarry Books, →ISBN, page 181

   A take-it-as-it-falls day, Valentine’s Day doesn’t move to the nearest Monday or Friday to create a long weekend. Whatever day of the week February the fourteenth hits is it. And it’s a get-up-and-go-to-work day, especially if your place of employment happens to be in the restaurant industry, or at a florist shop, or behind the counter in a chocolaterie. Love sells, so people have to work.

   2015, Myrl Coulter, A Year of Days, Edmonton, Alta.: The University of Alberta Press, →ISBN, page 58

   That’s why, when I received a message that my one-time chocolate-making mentor, Philippe Vetault, was retiring from his Brittany-based chocolaterie, I jumped at the chance to attend his au revoir party.

   2017, Colette London [pseudonym; Lisa Plumley], Dead and Ganache, New York, N.Y.: Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 3