I. |rā(ˌ)shō|fā noun
( -s )
Etymology: French, from réchauffé warmed over
1. : a dish of food that has been warmed over
a réchauffé of lamb
2. : something that is served up again : rehash
the crudest, clumsiest réchauffé of an old dreary melodrama — Sydney (Australia) Bulletin
II. adjective
Etymology: French, past participle of réchauffer to warm again, from ré- re- + chauffer to warm, from Middle French chaufer — more at chafe
1. : warmed over
chicken réchauffé
2. : worked over : rehashed
two hundred pages of reasonably fresh material and six hundred that are merely réchauffé — Nation