Au Gratin Definition

ō grätn, grătn, gră-tăɴ
adjective
Covered with bread crumbs and sometimes butter and grated cheese, and then browned in an oven.
Potatoes au gratin.
American Heritage
Having a lightly browned crust of bread crumbs and grated cheese.
Webster's New World

Covered with a crust of breadcrumbs (often cheese) then browned under a grill.

Wiktionary

Origin of Au Gratin

  • French au with the gratin scraping from the pan

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French au gratin

    From Wiktionary

Au Gratin Sentence Examples

  • Have the beef bourguignon, and pay extra for a side order of potatoes au gratin.

  • And you don't even know what ' Au gratin ' means... Um, got any lager?

  • But the other woman, satisfying her first pangs of hunger, was now bent rather low over her macaroni au gratin.

  • In the hour allocated for cooking, Chris managed to create eight dishes including haddock kedgeree, courgette au gratin and sweet-and-sour pork.

  • What is a holiday dinner without potatoes au gratin?

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