# chocolatière
## English
### Alternative forms

* chocolatiere

### Etymology

From French chocolatière.

### Noun

chocolatière (plural chocolatières)
* A pot for chocolate.
** 1864, a French Lady [pseudonym], Cookery for English Households, London, Cambridge, Cambs.: Macmillan and Co., page 247:If you have got a chocolatière, whip the chocolate to make it frothy.
** 1986, Gabriel P[aul] Weisberg, Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900, New York, N.Y.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., →ISBN, page 190: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.
** 1998, Tony Curtis, compiler, Lyle Antiques Price Guide 1999, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 754:A chocolatière, the design attributed to Lucien Bonvallet, manufactured by Cardheilac, circa 1895-1900, waisted cylinder decorated with repoussé formalised leaves, 8½in. high.
** 2009, Sarah Moss, Alexander Badenoch, Chocolate: A Global History, London: Reaktion Books, →ISBN, pages 42–43: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.
** 2012, Anne Gerritsen, “Scales of a Local: The Place of Locality in a Globalizing World”, in Douglas Northrop, editor, A Companion to World History (Wiley-Blackwell Companions to World History), Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, part II (Categories and Concepts), section “Framing”, page 222: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.
** 2016, Anne Gerritsen, Giorgio Riello, “The Global Lives of Things: Material culture in the first global age”, in Anne Gerritsen, Giorgio Riello, editors, The Global Lives of Things: The Material Culture of Connections in the Early Modern World, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN: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.
* A social gathering at which chocolate is served.
** 1889 April 11, “Close of the Presbytery. Visitors Gone Home—Notes of the Session—Talk on Japan. Delegates to the General Assembly—Words of Gratitude.”, in The Decatur Daily Republican, volume XVIII, Decatur, Ill., page [3]: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.
** 1903 March 6, The Andover Townsman, volume XVI, number 21, Andover, Mass., page 2, column 2: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.
** 1905, Sarah Tyson Rorer, Mrs. Rorer’s Every Day Menu Book: Giving a Menu for Every Meal in the Year; Menus for Weddings, Dinners, Receptions, and Many Other Social Functions; with Illustrations of Appropriate Decorated Tables, Philadelphia, Pa.: Arnold and Company, page 275: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.
** 1907 March 8, “All of Chocolate: Confections for Luncheon or Afternoon Tea. Beverage, Cookies, Biscuits and Cake All Provided For—very Requisite for Quiet Afternoon With Congenial Company.”, in The Portsmouth Herald, volume XXII, number 134, Portsmouth, N.H., page six, column 4: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.
** 1909 April 24, “College and Alumnae”, in The Woman’s Journal, volume XL, number 17, Boston, Mass., page 66, column 2: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.
** 1910 July, A. M. H., “Public Meetings for Junior Societies”, in The American Missionary, volume LXIV, number 7, page 301, column 1: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.
** 1910 September 8, “Local and Personal”, in Clanton Press, volume I, number 23, Clanton, Ala., page [8], column 2: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.
** 1969 November–December, “Christmas in Louisiana”, in Louisiana Conservationist, numbers 11–12, New Orleans, La.: Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries Commission, page 17: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.
* A female producer of chocolate.
    Coordinate term: chocolatier
** 1953 November 21, Leonard Bacon, “Young Man with a Tongue”, in Saturday Review, New York, N.Y.: Saturday Review Associates, Inc., page 26, column 1: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.”
** 1986, Gerald A[ustin] Browne, Stone 588, New York, N.Y.: Arbor House, →OCLC, page 99:Libby remarked that the truffles were made for her by a chocolatière in Vienna whose identity she kept as confidential as her sins.
** 2012, Murray Pomerance, “Introduction: Stardom in the 2000s”, in Murray Pomerance, editor, Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, →ISBN, page 4:[…] for a completely different kind of experience they could migrate to the small-scale delights of Juliette Binoche as a chocolatière in Chocolat (2000), […]

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɔ.kɔ.la.tjɛʁ/
* Homophone: chocolatières
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

chocolatière
* feminine singular of chocolatier

### Noun

chocolatière f (plural chocolatières, masculine chocolatier)
* female equivalent of chocolatier

### Further reading

* “chocolatière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* chocolaterie