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bain-marie Definition


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noun
    bain-maries
    1. cookery.
      A pan filled with hot water in which a container of food can be cooked gently or kept warm.
Etymology: 19c: French, literally ‘bath of Mary', from medieval Latin balneum Mariae, ‘Maria' being the name of an alleged alchemist.



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