Definitions for Coquille

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Coquille co·quille

Spelling: [kop-ee-reed-oh-keel; French kaw-kee-y

IPA: /ˈkɒp iˌrid oʊˈkil; French kɔˈki yə/

Coquille is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in Coquille (ceilloqu).

Definitions for Coquille

noun

1. any of various seafood or chicken dishes baked with a sauce and usually served in a scallop shell or a shell-shaped serving dish.
2. the cooking utensil for baking such dishes, usually a scallop shell or small casserole resembling a shell.
3. a cooking utensil, filled with charcoal, for roasting meat on a spit.
4. the shell of an escargot.

Origin of Coquille

French: shell (of a mollusk, nut, etc.). See cockle¹

Examples for Coquille

The cattle were soon landed and eating their fill on the rich tract of littoral between Utwé and coquille.

“I will not disguise my belief from you that she is the coquille,” answered the lieutenant.

For a distance of seventy-five miles inland the coquille Valley is capable of extensive agricultural development.

Still the coquille—for that such she was very little doubt existed—kept creeping up.

We shall long remember that little, leaping, dancing branch of the coquille, that runs from the Coast Mountains to the sea.

Early one morning I made ready for a start back to coquille harbour, and found Kusis awaiting me in the king's courtyard.

In another minute two well-armed boats were lowered from the stranger, and soon came alongside the “coquille.”

On the 9th of the same month the coquille anchored at Payta.

At length a look of content overspread his face as the Captain said he would not touch the cocoa-nuts in coquille harbour.

It was only with great difficulty that the Seniavine entered coquille harbour.