Pronounced: NEH-shuns (alt: NEH-shunts; alt-2: NEH-she-uns; alt-3: NEH-she-unts), noun
Notes: I believe I’ve run across this word, but I didn’t know the meaning of it
Yesterday’s word
The word rechauffe means
- warmed leftover food
- rehash; old reworked material
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1700s
Background / Comments
I love the idea of referring to leftovers as rechauffe; it quite elevates the meaning. Our word came from the French word réchauffé (reheated; rehashed), which came from chauffer (to warm), which came from the Latin word calefacere (to make warm), which came from calere (to be hot) combined with facere (to make).
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