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Raclette

3 stages from French to English.

Today it means a Swiss dish made by melting cheese and scraping it over potatoes and other foods
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Stage 1 of 3
racler
French · medieval
"to scrape"
to scrape, describing melted cheese scraped onto a plate
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Stage 2 of 3
raclette
Swiss French · 1800s
"a dish of melted cheese scraped over food"
settled in Swiss French for the dish of melted cheese scraped over potatoes and vegetables
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Stage 3 of 3
raclette
English · 1900s
"a Swiss dish of melted cheese served over potatoes and vegetables"
adopted directly for the Swiss melted cheese dish
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