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callet en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈkælət/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A trull or prostitute.
2. (obsolete) A scold or gossip.

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callet en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• /ˈkælət/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To rail or scold.
   • hear her in her spleen Callet like a butter-quean c. 1630, Richard Brathwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys:

Forms

callet en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From French callet.

Meanings

1. A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.
   • We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting. 2020, Everything Chocolate: A Decadent Collection of Morning Pastries, Nostalgic Sweets, and Showstopping Desserts, America's Test Kitchen, →ISBN:
   • You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down. 2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN:
   • In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with. 2017, Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, with Tara Wigley, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press:

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