rotisserie

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun an oven or broiler equipped with a rotating spit on which meat cooks as it turns
noun a restaurant that specializes in roasted and barbecued meats

From French rôtisserie, from rôtir ‘to roast’. Doublet of rosticceria and roastery.

"But she's no perambulatin' rotisserie, is she?" says I. — Torchy and Vee, Sewell Ford
Face down on his knee was La Rotisserie de la Refine Pedauque, and just before he fell asleep he had been thinking: 'As a people shall we ever really like the French? — The Forsyte Saga - Complete, John Galsworthy
The titles of nearly all of them, arranged in chronological order, are as follows: ‘Les Desirs de Jean Seyvien (1882); Abeille (1883); Le Livre de mon Ami (1885); Nos Enfants (1886); Balthazar (1889); Thais (1890); L’Etui de Naire (1892); Jerome Coignard, and La Rotisserie de la Reine Pedanque (1893); and Histoire Contemporaine (1897-1900), the latter consisting of four separate works: ‘L’Orme du Mail, Le Mannequin d’Osier, L’Anneau d’Amethyste, and Monsieur Bergeret a Paris’. — The Red Lily — Complete, Anatole France

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