bouchée

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bouchée (“mouthful”).

Noun

bouchée (plural bouchées)

A small pastry case filled with a savoury mixture, served as an hors d'oeuvre.

French

Etymology

bouche +‎ -ée, possibly Vulgar Latin *buccata, from Latin bucca. Compare Italian boccata, Romanian bucată; cf. also Portuguese and Spanish bocado.

Noun

bouchée f (plural bouchées)

mouthful

Participle

bouchée

feminine singular of the past participle of boucher

Further reading

“bouchée” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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