casserole
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
casserole/ˈkasərəʊl/
▶noun
- 1 a large dish with a lid, used for cooking food slowly in an oven.
- 2 a kind of stew cooked slowly in an oven.
– origin C18: from Fr., dimin. of casse ‘spoon-like container’, from Old Provençal casa, from late L. cattia ‘ladle, pan’, from Gk kuathion, dimin. of kuathos ‘cup’.
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