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au gratin

adjective

🔊/əʊ ˈɡrætæn/

🔊/əʊ ˈɡrætn/

[usually before noun] (from French)

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covered in breadcrumbs or cheese and made brown by heating in an oven, etc.
Word OriginFrench, literally ‘by grating’, from the verb gratter ‘to grate’.