suzette

plural suzettes

1. Alternative letter-case form of Suzette (“crêpe Suzette”).

   Make suzettes in the chafing dish.

   1956, “Viennese Blinis”, in The ABC of Chafing Dish Cookery, Mount Vernon, N.Y.: Peter Pauper Press, →OCLC, page 58

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   A member of the French Festival committee who had helped prepare hundreds of suzettes found the popularity of this pancake a definite business asset.

   1945, Alice L[illiequist] Sickels, “Eating Internationally”, in Around the World in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, →OCLC, page 213

   I am hungry at the sun’s rim where the fake lights of suzettes on fire are carried across the bellies of hills & cafés.

   1970, Poet Lore: A National Quarterly of World Literature and the Drama, volumes 65–66, Boston, Mass.: Literary Publications Foundation, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC

plural Suzettes · alternative Susette

1. A female given name from French.

   “Halt!” shouted the general as the happiest of Suzettes turned toward her kitchen.

   1909 May, F[rank] Berkeley Smith, “The Horrors of War”, in Smith’s Magazine: A Publication for the Home, volume IX, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Smith Publishing House, →OCLC, page 310, column 2

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   On September 5, 1967, Iola gave birth to our last child. She was a beautiful, bright-eyed baby girl, and I named her Suzette. I had fallen in love with French names.

   2006, LeRoy T. Allen, Sr., chapter 10, in Just a Little Country Boy: In the Throes of the Civil Rights Revolution in the North, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 113

   Using the pen name “Suzette,” she became one of the country’s first female newspaper reporters.

   2006 May, Don Pitcher, “Caroline Lockhart”, in Wyoming (Moon Handbooks), 6th edition, Emeryville, Calif.: Avalon Travel Publishing, →ISBN, “Lovell and Vicinity” section, page 559, column 1

   Here's a little history of my introduction to The Big Cheesette. The first time she was nasty for no apparent reason, was on course, when I mispronounced the manager in charge of wardrobe's name, Suzette. I accidentally, called her Susan.

   2010, Derra St. Denis, chapter 20, in Flip the Bird, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu, →ISBN

plural Suzettes

1. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of crêpe Suzette.

   […] crêpes Suzette and all that, I had a dish lately that I wouldn’t swap for a stack of Suzettes a mile high.

   1949, Ladies’ Home Journal, volume 66, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 56

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   Secret Of Suzettes / We have requests for a Crepe Suzette recipe—Here is one that is good, but not too difficult.

   1963 February 22, The Lincoln Star, 61st year, number 124, Lincoln, Neb., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 15, column 7