hotte
Appearance
See also: hötte
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Frankish *hotta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /ɔt/
- Rhymes: -ɔt
Noun
[edit]hotte f (plural hottes)
- carrying basket, burden basket
- la hotte du Père Noël ― Santa Claus's sack
- hood (metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes)
- Synonym: hotte aspirante
- kitchen hood, extractor hood (electrical kitchen device fitted over a cooker and connected to a flue designed to suck off any vapours from cooking)
- fume hood (ventilated compartment in which chemical procedures may be undertaken without the escape of noxious fumes into the local environment)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “hotte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.