au gratin

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   cooked while covered with browned breadcrumbs (and sometimes cheese)

   Similarcooked

Questions about au gratin

What does au gratin mean?

au gratin means "cooked while covered with browned breadcrumbs (and sometimes cheese)".

Is au gratin a common word?

au gratin is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.