chocolate

Forms

1.A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
- Chocolate is a very popular treat.
- In eighteenth century France, many aphrodisiac dishes and pastries were compounded with chocolate.
2.A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
3.A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
- Madame de Pompadour was fond of chocolates spiced with vanilla and amber.
- He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
4.A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
- As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
- A small boy clutching a Negro woman’s hand walked toward us. He looked all Negro to me: he was rich chocolate with flaring nostrils and beautiful teeth.

1.Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
2.Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).(slang)
- She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.
- If you are as chocolate as an African queen, do you really think you'll look better as a bottle blonde?
3.Made of or containing chocolate.

Uncommon· #2819

Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin.

See that entry for more information.