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rotisserie orig. U.S.|rəʊˈtiːsərɪ|
Also rôtisserie.
[a. F. rôtisserie, f. rôtiss-, stem of rôtir to roast + -erie -ery.]
1. A restaurant where meat is roasted or barbecued, freq. at a grill in the front window.
1868Overland Monthly Nov. 470/1 At some of these French houses, especially designated as rotisseriés [sic], the kitchen is nominally open to inspection. 1914S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn i. 15 A rôtisserie, before whose upright fender of scarlet coals whole ducks were happily roasting to a shiny brown. 1925Restaurant News & Managem. Dec. 10 (caption) An instance of successful catering to business and professional people The Rotisserie Inn, Salt Lake City. 1936Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) 215 Rôtisserie, with the accent omitted, seems to be an Americanism. It signifies an eating-house wherein chickens and butcher's meat are roasted at a charcoal-grill, usually in the show-window of the establishment.
2. A cooking appliance which has a rotating spit for roasting and barbecuing meat. Also attrib. and Comb.
1953Home Beautiful Apr. 133 Cooking on a rotating spit or rotisserie is high gourmet cooking. 1953J. & M. Robertson Compl. Small Appliance Cookbk. ii. 37 Rotisserie heat is beside or above the revolving food. Ibid. ii. 42 Serve with rotisserie-browned potatoes. 1960Guardian 17 Mar. 9/4 All the glittering machines, the washers, the electric rotisseries. 1969Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 Dec. 40/1 They borrowed a commercial rotisserie, got the charcoal white hot, and loaded the apparatus with 200 pounds of wild boar. 1973Times 30 July 11/1 Rôtisserie spits, continuous cleaning ovens, the use of colour..these and other innovations..are maintaining..the popularity of the gas cooker. 1978Lancashire Life Apr. 125/3 There are, in fact, three variations of this cooker, the most expensive one having a built-in rotisserie and kebab attachments.
Hence (as a back-formation) roˈtiss(e) v. trans. and intr., to cook meat on a rotisserie; roˈtissed ppl. a., roˈtissing vbl. n.
1958Word Study Dec. 5/1 The manufacturer has created the verb ‘rotiss’. Ibid. 5/2 The housewife is advised to set her pointer according to what meat is being ‘rotissed’, and is informed that she needn't preheat when ‘broiling or rotissing’. a1963P. Bracken I hate to housekeep Bk. (1969) viii. 72 She is a little scared of the rotisserie in her new double oven, so she continues to buy her chickens ready-rotissed. 1978Verbatim Feb. 1/2 One San Francisco appliance dealer boasts of a stove which will not only roast and broil, it will also rotisse!
▸ N. Amer. A game (originally using baseball statistics but in later use extended also to other sports) in which each participant selects an imaginary team from among the players in an existing league and scores points according to their actual performances. Chiefly attrib., esp. in rotisserie league. Cf. fantasy league at fantasy n. Additions
Rotisserie League Baseball is a proprietary name in the United States.
1980Collects Calls Apr. 1/2 A new report claims that the heaviest coffee drinkers at the recent Rotisserie draft made the wildest picks and those who abstained kept their heads, their money and their judgment. 1980N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 July b8/3 What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisserie League. His team, the Eisenberg Furriers, may exist only on paper, but it's leading the league. 1985Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 16 Sept. iii. 3/3 There are basketball and football rotisserie leagues, too. The trouble with these leagues is you have to read the box scores every day, which can do serious damage to your eyesight. 1990Boston Phoenix 27 Apr. a26/3 Ditch the numbers-crunching war you're fighting with USA Today for the hearts and minds of Rotisserie-baseball fans and frustrated accountants. 1996San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 21 Nov. e7 The Fabulous Sports Babe knows everything about sports. This includes the ones she thinks are phony (fantasy football, rotisserie leagues). 2001Baseball Weekly (Electronic ed.) 20 June Matt Anderson's recent success as the closer for the Detroit Tigers—despite Phil Garner's insistence that Todd Jones is still the man—is a reminder of how well the strategy of drafting setup men can work—in Rotisserie baseball. |