ramekin
A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
Noun
- A small glass or earthenware dish, often white and circular, in which food is baked and served.
- The starters have arrived, two triangles of buttered brown bread and a neat little ramekin of crab buried under a haystack of cress, which Smith promptly relocates so that she can sprinkle it over each mouthful. - 2023...
- Setting the soufflés before us, the waitress warns that the ramekins are hot. - 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd.,...
- A cheese- or meat-based dish baked in a small mold.
Origin
Borrowed from French ramequin, from dialectal Dutch rammeken (“cheese dish”) (compare Dutch rameken (“toasted bread”)) or Low German ramken (“cream”), equivalent to ream + -kin. Compare mannequin/mannikin, and compare creamer.