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fondue [fon-doo, -dyoo, fon-doo, -dyoo; French fawn-dy]Cookery. ExamplesWord Origin noun, plural fon·dues [fon-dooz, -dyooz, fon-dooz, -dyooz; French fawn-dy] /fɒnˈduz, -ˈdyuz, ˈfɒn duz, -dyuz; French fɔ̃ˈdü/.
- a saucelike dish of Swiss origin made with melted cheese and seasonings together with dry white wine, usually flavored with kirsch: served as a hot dip for pieces of bread.
- a dish of hot liquid in which small pieces of food are cooked or dipped: beef fondue; chocolate fondue.
- a baked soufflélike dish usually containing cheese and cracker crumbs or bread crumbs.
adjective
Origin of fondue 1875–80; French; feminine of fondu fondu Examples from the Web for fondue Contemporary Examples of fondue
In the 1950s, fondue became popular as an American party food, both for its novelty and its communal nature.
Cookstr.com
March 2, 2010
The best part: Fondue has come out of the closet, and is no longer limited to melted cheese and bread.
Cookstr.com
March 2, 2010
The match for a dark, heavy beer is a food that is just as robust: fondue.
5 Pioneering Ways to Cook with Beer
Stacey Slate
February 2, 2010
Historical Examples of fondue
Yet the Fondue has added to the gaiety and inebriety of nations, if not of dictionaries.
Robert Carlton Brown
There is a conspiracy among the dictionary makers to take the heart out of the Fondue.
Robert Carlton Brown
When the knife comes out clean, take the basin out of the water and turn the Fondue out on a dish.
Robert Carlton Brown
He tells, too, of a Fondue party he threw for a couple of his septuagenarian cousins in Paris “about the year 1801.”
Robert Carlton Brown
At such a party a little heated wine is added if the Fondue gets too thick.
Robert Carlton Brown
British Dictionary definitions for fondue fondue noun
- a Swiss dish, consisting of cheese melted in white wine or cider, into which small pieces of bread are dipped and then eaten
Word Origin for fondue C19: from French, feminine of fondu melted, from fondre to melt; see fondant Word Origin and History for fondue
1878, French cooking term (15c.), literally “melted,” properly fem. past participle of fondre “to melt” (see found (v.2)).