ramequin

Borrowed from French ramequin.

ramequin (plural ramequins)

1. Archaic form of ramekin.

• “ramequin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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From Middle Dutch rammeken (“toasted bread”) or Middle Low German ramken (“cream”), from rame, rōme (“cream”), from Old Saxon *rōm (“cream”), from Proto-West Germanic *raum, from Proto-Germanic *raumaz (“cream”), from Proto-Indo-European *rewǝgh- (“to sour”).

Cognate with Old High German roum (“cream”), Old English rēam (“cream”). More at ream.

• IPA^(key): /ʁam.kɛ̃/

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ramequin m (plural ramequins)

1. ramekin (dish for baking in oven)

• “ramequin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.