girolle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French girolle.

Noun

girolle (plural girolles)

1. chanterelle (mushroom)
   • 2015 November 14, Yotam Ottolenghi, “Shroom for manoeuvre: Yotam Ottolenghi’s mushroom recipes”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     The dominance of the squeaky-clean white button has given way to a far wider range: brown chestnuts and flat-capped portobellos, and pearly-white oysters, which really do look a bit like the oyster shells they’re named after, carotene-orange girolles, flavour-bomb dried shiitake and porcini, or delicate enoki, with their long, skinny legs and tiny caps, which are often sold in packages with buna and shiro shimejis and labelled “exotic”.

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French

des girolles

Alternative forms

• girole

Etymology

From Latin gȳrus (“circle”) +‎ -ole.

Noun

girolle f (plural girolles)

1. chanterelle (mushroom)

Further reading

• “girolle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.