réchauffé

[ French rey-shoh-fey ]

noun

, plural ré·chauf·fés [r, ey-shoh-, fey],

1. a warmed-up dish of food.
2. anything old or stale brought into service again.

réchauffé

/ reʃofe /

noun

1. warmed-up leftover food
2. old, stale, or reworked material

Word History and Origins

Origin of réchauffé¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; from French, past participle of réchauffer, equivalent to r(e)- re- + échauffer “to warm”; chafe

Word History and Origins

Origin of réchauffé¹

C19: from French réchauffer to reheat, from re- + chauffer to warm; see chafe

Example Sentences

She quotes one California cook, who wrote in 1904, “The secret of a successful rechauffé is its complete disguise … it should be combined with other ingredients, seasoned, and served so that its identity is completely lost.”

From Slate

RECHAUFFE: A dish of food that has been warmed over.

From Washington Times

RECHAUFFE: A dish of food that has been warmed over.

From US News

And another, “L’histoire vit de documents, mais les documents sont pareils aux lettres écrites avec les encres chimiques; ils veulent, pour livrer leur secret, qu’on les réchauffe, et les éclaire par transparence, à la flamme de la vie.”

From Project Gutenberg

Every time he tries to generalize his slanders against the revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat, he produces merely a réchauffé of the prejudices of Jaurèsism and Bernsteinism.

From Project Gutenberg