rôtisserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rôtisseries
Senses: examples: text: He had sixteen dollars in the lining of his coat, and for days as he tramped and worked, he saw this hoard expended in San Francisco—a bath, clean linen, and a dinner, a dinner in a rôtisserie with a pint of red wine and a cigar.
ref: 1917, Geraldine Bonner, Treasure and Trouble Therewith: A Tale of California, New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, page 28:
text: […] boys, after these so natural delays, would saunter up and down stairs of these streets where, like Napoleon, Trilby would look for cheap lunches after the reaction from the strain of having Svengali putting perfect pitch into her white throat, and where Rabelais, Ronsard, Anatole French would come to smell the rôtisseries.
ref: 1948, Robert Gordon Anderson, The City and the Cathedral: A Reflection of the Glory of the Gothic and the Middle Ages at Their High Tide in the City by the Seine, page 125:
text: Nearer at hand, on both sides of the road, are grape arbours and fig-trees in first leaf; groves of cumquats and olives; tobacco plants under wigwams of polyphene; sago- and phoenix-palms; infant melon vines, and vines of sponge-gourd, the luffa Aegypticus from which bath loofahs are formed; fields of buckwheat being weeded by peasant women gloved to the elbow like so many Yvette Guilberts; fields of calendulas, the current craze for ikebana; bonsai farms with special hospital plots for ailing plants; loquat-trees with their clusters of unripe fruit already wearing protective snoods of rice-paper; long greenhouses of tomato plants; longer sheds for fowls being fattened for yaki-tori restaurants, and the rôtisseries of supermarkets; patches of purple milk-vetch grown to lure the bees needed to fertilize nearby essential crops; Chinese cabbages and taro and broad beans and cooking-chrysanthemum and shallots and parsley; and many pines but no cedars because cedars require much more rain than Kagawa gets.
ref: 1968, Hal Porter, The Actors: An Image of the New Japan, page 93:
text: Minister allows change of use of Aylesbury premises from rôtisserie to fried fish shop. / Permission for the change of use from a rôtisserie to a fried fish shop of premises in Weedon Road, Aylesbury, consent for which had been refused by the planning authority, has been granted by the Minister of Housing and Local Government, on appeal. […] The proposal in the application is in effect to turn a rôtisserie, which is a shop within Class 1 of the Schedule to the Town and Country Planning (Use Classes) Order 1963, into a fried fish shop falling within exception (1) to that Class.
ref: 1969, The Estates Gazette, volume 212, Planning Appeal Decisions, page 423:
text: The Stadthof, on the other cheek, claims no lobby at all. But it does boast a Swiss-style Grill with rôtisseries and a mini-mini-mini-bar that are cute. […] Zum Storchen, which occupies one of the better midcity situations, zuuums in with a timber-lined waterside rôtisserie, a dining terrace over the water, a soulless bar with piano-tations, and an alp of aid from Chief Concierge Roth.
ref: 1955, Temple Fielding, Fielding’s Travel Guide to Europe, pages 1271, 1300:
text: Open only in winter, La Cave has a rôtisserie where you can dine and dance by the fireplace.
ref: 1984, Darwin Porter, Frommer’s Dollarwise Guide to Switzerland & Liechtenstein, →ISBN, page 200:
text: Seafood features prominently with the plateau de fruits de mer at £14.50, as do the grilled dishes, such as poussin with rosemary and garlic or rabbit with prosciutto and herbs, cooked on a rôtisserie visible from the restaurant behind a bronze-framed window.
ref: 1993, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, volume 186, page 38:
text: But what is really important about Cragside is its interior; because here Armstrong the inventory and engineer let himself go. In 1868 he installed one of his own hydraulic engines, with which he powered his laundry equipment, a primitive sort of telephone, a passenger lift, a Turkish bath and even a rôtisserie.
ref: 2011, John Julius Norwich, “Victorian England”, in A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin, →ISBN, 77. Cragside, Northumberland:
text: On a crisp autumn evening in a north London street, a rôtisserie trailer is parked outside a garden flat, green fairy lights blinking on and off, warm chickens perfuming the air.
ref: 2012, Steven Poole, “Prologue: The Food Rave”, in You Aren’t What You Eat: Fed Up with Gastroculture, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of rotisserie.