rocher

French

rocher (plural rochers)

1. (cooking) A quenelle (in the sense of food moulded into an elliptical shape) made using one spoon rather than two.

Inherited from Old French rochier, from roche.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔ.ʃe/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophone: rochers

rocher m (plural rochers)

1. rock (mass of projecting rock)

• roche is usually the material of rock, while rocher is a discrete rock or boulder that e.g. someone can roll about. The former can also mean a discrete rock, but the latter can never refer to the material in general.

• “rocher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.