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hotte

range hood

noun OT Rare
Home & Lifestyle Household Items

Also means

basket carried on the back

Usage Note

Hotte has two quite different uses: in the kitchen it is the extractor hood above a cooker (hotte aspirante), while in traditional rural contexts it was a large wicker basket strapped to the back. The silent final -e is typical of French feminine nouns; the -ott- spelling signals the open-o vowel.

Examples

"La hotte aspirante est indispensable."

Natural Translation

The range hood is indispensable.

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