Definition of "croquette" []

• A small cake of minced food, such as poultry, vegetables, or fish, that is usually coated with bread crumbs and fried in deep fat. (noun)

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• "The croquette, which is served with many of the available brunch items until 3 p.m. on Sundays, was a deep-fried, golden round of creamy mashed potatoes."
• "Spellers were tripped up on words such as croquette, mahi-mahi, klompen and cadenza."
• "To start there is a crumbly biscuit of aged cheddar with a dollop of broccoli purée, followed by a fingernail-sized deep-fried croquette of smoked eel with an intense pommes purée."