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Chafing-dish dish
Answer for the clue "Chafing-dish dish ", 6 letters:
fondue
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. cubes of meat or seafood cooked in hot oil and then dipped in any of various sauces [syn: fondu ] hot sauce-like melted cheese or chocolate in which bread or fruits are dipped [syn: fondu ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fondue ( or ; ) is a Swiss , Italian , and French dish of melted cheese served in a communal pot ( caquelon or fondue pot) over a chafing stand ( réchaud ) heated with a candle or spirit lamp , and eaten by dipping bread into the cheese using long-stemmed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fondu \Fon`du"\ (f[o^]n"d[.u]"), a. [F. fondu, p.p. of fondre to melt, blend. See Found to cast.] Blended; gradually changing or passing into each other by subtle gradations; -- said of colors or of the surface or material on which the colors are laid. ...
Usage examples of fondue.
There were no kickshaws, by which term Mr Templecombe scornfully described fondues and trifles and jellies, opining sagely that Philip had no greater liking for them than he had himself.
When the second course made its appearance, with its plethora of vegetables, jellies, fondues, blancmanges, and Chantilly baskets, she refused to allow her aunt to serve her from the larded guinea-fowls which graced the head of the table, or Sir Timothy to tempt her to a morsel of the ducklings set before him, and ended her repast with some asparagus.
You can be dipped in and out like a bit of beef fondue, a toe or a foot or a hand at a time, as often and as slow as I choose to do it.
Joyce set her fork down and wiped a dot of cheese fondue off her chin with a paper napkin.
Thomas had whipped up a simple meal: cheese fondue, venison broth with noodles, fish poached in wine, and crepes with boysenberry jam.
I once had a very difficult job interview in which I had not only to explain that I could hit an olive with a bow and arrow, memorize up to three pages of poetry, and determine if there was poison mixed into cheese fondue without tasting it, but I had to demonstrate all these things as well.
I regret not being able to deliver a smoking gun, but I think a smoking fondue fork will do just as well, although from the sound of it I can see why nobody ever used it in the old stories.