Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with bread crumbs and sometimes butter and grated cheese, and then browned in an oven.
from The Century Dictionary.
- With a breaded or browned crust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- (Cookery) With a crust made by browning in the oven, especially by sprinkling with bread crumbs or grated cheese and browning in a broiler.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered with a
crust ofbreadcrumbs (and oftencheese ) thenbrowned under a grill.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective cooked while covered with browned breadcrumbs (and sometimes cheese)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[French : au, with the + gratin, scraping from the pan.]
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From French au gratin
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