coquille

[ kop-ee-reed-oh-keel; French kaw-kee-yuh ]

noun

, plural co·quilles [koh-, keelz, kaw-kee-y, uh].

1. any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
2. the cooking utensil for baking such dishes, usually a scallop shell or small casserole resembling a shell.
3. a cooking utensil, filled with charcoal, for roasting meat on a spit.
4. the shell of an escargot.

coquille

/ kɔkij /

noun

1. any dish, esp seafood, served in a scallop shell

   Coquilles St Jacques

2. a scallop shell, or dish resembling a shell
3. fencing a bell-shaped hand guard on a foil

Word History and Origins

Origin of coquille¹

< French: shell (of a mollusk, nut, etc.). See cockle ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of coquille¹

French, literally: shell, from Latin conchӯlium mussel; see cockle ¹

Example Sentences

But maybe this is the time to cook them as the French might, with a recipe for coquilles St.-Jacques Bordelaise, maybe with rice and a fennel salad.

From New York Times

“I have the chance to be woken up by small boats going to fish scallops, the famous coquille Saint Jacques,” she says.

From Wall Street Journal

Other menu items in the works include crab cakes, crab legs with remoulade, lobster Newburg, cucumber salad, Waldorf salad, coquille St-Jacques, double pork chop smothered with mushroom and caramelized onion cream sauce and more.

From Los Angeles Times

The above dish resembles ragoût fin en coquille, a popular Continental dish, although its principal ingredients are sweetbreads instead of brains.

From Project Gutenberg

And I remember recording a mental note of Margery’s fondness for sweetbreads en coquille.

From Project Gutenberg