Meaning of chocolatière | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pot for chocolate.
2. A social gathering at which chocolate is served.
3. A female producer of chocolate.

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Examples

“If you have got a chocolatière, whip the chocolate to make it frothy.”

“Between mid-1900 and a year later, Bing asked de Feure and Colonna to submit a series of designs, which were then manufactured into porcelains in Limoges. Their completed objects, exhibited at the Salons of 1901 and 1902 as well as at the 1902 Turin exhibition, included a large card tray (fig. 195), a container for matches (colorpl. 44), and a number of porcelain vases (fig. 1 96, colorpls. 45, 46). By 1902 an ink pot and a chocolatière (colorpls. 47, 48) joined the group along with several vases and pitchers.”

“A chocolatière, the design attributed to Lucien Bonvallet, manufactured by Cardheilac, circa 1895-1900, waisted cylinder decorated with repoussé formalised leaves, 8½in. high.”

“A later dinner meant that there was more emphasis on breakfast, which became a meal in itself rather than a way of getting by until dinner, and the upper classes took to convening at ten in the morning to eat various kinds of bread, toast and plain cakes accompanied by coffee or chocolate. It is in this context that beautiful silver and porcelain chocolatieres were produced.”

“Precisely because a consumer in the imperial Chinese court could order the highest-quality vase, or in fifteenth-century Samarkand could order a vast dish to serve large pieces of mutton, or in sixteenth-century Portugal could order a dish with his crest emblazoned under the glaze, or in seventeenth-century Holland could order a gin bottle or a butter dish, or in eighteenth-century Mexico could order a chocolatiere, Jingdezhen’s factories were so in demand. Jingdezhen’s wares sold globally because the producers could respond to consumer demand and make items that were completely alien to local taste and meaningless in local sensibility.”

“The chest is flanked by a chocolatière with a wooden implement to stir the chocolate on one side, and a two-handled Talavera pottery jar on the other.”

“The sum of $222 had been raised by giving a lawn fete, a luncheon, a chocolatiere and a holiday offering, Dr. Fisher delivering a lecture on Japan.”

“Would you be up-to-date? Then you must entertain your friends with a “chocolatiere,” the character of the refreshments suggesting the name. There must be hot chocolate to drink, little fancy cakes with chocolate icing, and in tiny paper boxes set the trim little bricks of chocolate and vanilla harlequin. Sandwiches done up in chocolate-colored parafine paper (this paper may be colored by browning in the oven), and olives will make a very dainty repast for this latest.”

“A chocolatiere is usually given in the afternoon, although it may be given in the evening. Chocolate is served in every conceivable form. All the invitations are on chocolate colored cards. The decorations are brown: in the autumn shades of leaves are especially appropriate. The young ladies receiving are dressed in chocolate colored costumes; plain full skirts, white aprons and little Dutch caps.”

“A Chocolatiere.—A chocolatiere is distinctly a woman’s function, frequently taking the place of afternoon tea. The refreshments all have chocolate in some form. There is hot chocolate with whipped cream to drink, chocolate ice cream, chocolate cakes with white frosting or white cakes with chocolate frosting and chocolate bonbons. As chocolate is apt to become cloying when no other flavor is employed the sandwiches are preferably of plain bread and butter, while olives stuffed or plain and salted nuts fit in well with the chocolate scheme.”

“Dean Marion Reilly of Bryn Mawr College has lately been the guest of Miss Ada Comstock, Dean of Women at the University of Minnesota. She addressed the university girls on “Equal Suffrage in Eastern Colleges” at a chocolatiere given in her honor by the University Suffrage Club in Alice Shevlin Hall.”

“The Mission Band of North Adams has given successfully a little play, presenting missionaries as characters. The smaller children held a “Chocolatière,” dressing in the well-known Chocolate Girl costume and serving chocolate and wafers In this band, money is raised by these entertainments for the expense of the year.”

“Mrs. E. M. Pinckard entertained quite a number of her friends on Tuesday afternoon at her elegant home in honor of Miss DeBardeleben, of Tuskegee. Progressive dominoes was the game of the afternoon. A chocolatiere affair it was, and one of the most elegant ever given here or elsewhere.”

“The festive potables for these occasions are wine and champagne. Pastries and beignets are served usually for a morning collation and more elaborate cakes and petit fours are customary with the chocolate for a chocolatière. Soirées and the earlier in the evening veille call for an assortment of drinks and sandwiches or other light refreshments.”

“Thus, after one especially flagrant and vulgar intrigue with a chocolatière in Berlin, he can reflect that “your elegant mystics,” like Madame Guyon, are “of the opinion that sin should be forgotten as soon as possible, as being an idea too gross for the mind of a saint, and disturbing the exercise of sweet devotion.””

“Libby remarked that the truffles were made for her by a chocolatière in Vienna whose identity she kept as confidential as her sins.”

“[…] for a completely different kind of experience they could migrate to the small-scale delights of Juliette Binoche as a chocolatière in Chocolat (2000), […]”

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