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

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

So far from this being the case, I had, as will be seen in various passages of the first volume, considerable respect for the feeling with which he worked; but I was compelled to do harsh justice upon him now, because Mr. Leslie, in his unadvised and unfortunate réchauffé of the fallacious art-maxims of the last century, has suffered his personal regard for Constable so far to prevail over his judgment as to bring him forward as a great artist, comparable in some kind with Turner.

From Project Gutenberg

If you think there is worth in it, save it for a possible use at a later date in some other MS., though, personally, I do not believe in any sort of réchauffé of old matter, simply because as time goes on we change in our style of writing as we do in our tastes and preferences in neckties.

From Project Gutenberg