bain-marie

1. 1.

   a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly

   Broaderpan

Questions about bain-marie

What does bain-marie mean?

bain-marie means "a large pan that is filled with hot water; smaller pans containing food can be set in the larger pan to keep food warm or to cook food slowly".

How many syllables are in bain-marie?

bain-marie has 3 syllables and divides as bain--ma-rie under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bain-marie a common word?

bain-marie is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.