papillote

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See also: papilloté

English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French papillote.

Noun

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papillote (plural papillotes)

  1. (cooking) A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
    • 2018, Michelle Lewin, Dr. Samar Yorde, The Hot Body Diet [] [1], Penguin, →ISBN:
      Remove from the oven and allow to rest for about 5 minutes before opening the papillote. Be very careful when you open it, since the papillote fills up with steam while it's cooking and it can be very hot.
  2. (hair styling, often in the plural) A small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl; a curly lock.
    Synonym: curlpaper

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French

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From papillon (butterfly) with a change of suffix to -ote.

Noun

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papillote f (plural papillotes)

  1. (cooking) papillote (wrapper for food during cooking)
    rouget en papillotered mullet cooked in a packet
  2. (by extension) dish prepared in such a way
    papillotes de veau(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  3. (hair styling) papillote, curlpaper (small piece of paper used to make curled hair)
    Synonym: anglaise
    Mettre des papillotes sur la tête.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. (by extension) curly hair obtained with this method; ringlet
    Elle était nu-tête, de longues papillotes à l’anglaise, d’un blond cendré, tombaient avec une grâce exquise sur ses épaules décolletées.
    (please add an English translation of this usage example)
  5. (in particular) curly sideburns, peot
    Les papillotes traditionnelles des Juifs orthodoxes s’appellent les "péoths" ou "peyots".
    The traditional sideburns of Orthodox Jews are called "payot" ["péoths" or "peyots" in French].
  6. colored (paper) wrapper for sweets; the sweets themselves
    bonbon enveloppé dans sa papillotesweet wrapped in its wrapper
    Elle nous donnait en guise d’étrennes, à chacun, une papillote de chocolat.
    She gave us each as a gift a wrapped piece of chocolate.
Derived terms
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Descendants
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  • English: papillote
  • Spanish: papillote

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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papillote

  1. inflection of papilloter:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

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Norman

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Etymology

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From Latin pāpiliō (compare French papillon, with the same meaning).

Noun

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papillote f (plural papillotes)

  1. (Jersey) butterfly

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Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French papillote.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (most of Spain and Latin America) /papiˈʝote/ [pa.piˈʝo.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /papiˈʎote/ [pa.piˈʎo.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /papiˈʃote/ [pa.piˈʃo.t̪e]
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /papiˈʒote/ [pa.piˈʒo.t̪e]

  • Rhymes: -ote
  • Syllabification: pa‧pi‧llo‧te

Noun

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papillote f or m (plural papillotes)

  1. papillote

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