crêpe suzette

crêpe suzette (plural crêpes suzette or crêpe suzettes)

1. Alternative letter-case form of crêpe Suzette.
   • 1958, Philip K[indred] Dick, chapter 6, in In Milton Lumky Territory, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published May 2008, →ISBN, page 75:

     Let’s stop and pick up something special for dinner. You know what I’d like? A can of crêpes suzette.

   • 1963 summer, Spire Pitou, “Review-Article: Claudel, Cosmic and Comic”, in John Pick, editor, Renascence: A Critical Journal of Letters, volume XV, number 4, Milwaukee, Wis.: Catholic Renascence Society, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 213–214:

     Nor must one forget the dinner at which he harpooned one of the crêpes suzette with his fork and, holding it aloft, cried, “Here is how Gide will burn in Hell one day!”

   • 2007, Alison Noice, “Keeping Safe”, in Day Skipper for Sail and Power, London: Adlard Coles Nautical, →ISBN, page 33:

     The flaming of crêpe suzettes is definitely not encouraged on board a boat!

   • 2013, Edmund Glasby, “Volume XIII”, in The Ash Murders & Other Stories (Linford Mystery Library), Leicester, Leicestershire: Linford, →ISBN, page 206:

     For dessert there were crêpes suzette with his favourite, grand marnier sauce.

   • 2017 December 5, Glenda Ruby, “A Visit to the CIA”, in A Murderous Summer at Bard (Hudson Valley Mysteries), Middletown, Del.: Greendale Books, →ISBN, page 101:

     The room was equipped with several computer stations, AV equipment, and posters showing various concoctions-⁠-⁠-a crêpe suzette flaming, […]

Unadapted borrowing from French crêpe Suzette.

crêpe suzette (plural crêpe-crêpe suzette)

1. (cooking) crêpe Suzette: a dessert comprising a crêpe (pancake) topped with caramel and orange sauce and Grand Marnier, then flambéed

• “crêpe suzette” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.