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rangette en · NOUN

Etymology

From range + -ette.

Meanings

1. A small stove for cooking.
   • When the heating oil was used up, Addie turned on the top burners and oven elements of the rangette. 1999, Audré Andrews, My Halo is Choking Me! : the Adventures of a Public Health Nurse:
   • The stove, or rangette, shown was handsomely finished and attracted a great deal of attention from the visitors at the exhibition. 1897, The Metal Worker:
   • She should definitely be cleaning the rangette in Number 2 in readiness for the new tenant, but The Most Dazzling Colour Spectacle Ever? Fifty gilrs, in pink bathing suits, executing perfectly synchronised overarm in a bright blue pool? 2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 88:

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