papillote
See also: papilloté
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French papillote.
Noun
papillote (plural papillotes)
- (cooking) A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
- (hair styling) A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl.
Synonyms
- (hair styling): curl paper, curlpaper, curling paper
References
- “papillote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From papillon with a change of suffix to -ote.
Pronunciation
Noun
papillote f (plural papillotes)
- Wrapper or packet for food during cooking, trapping steam to provide a most cooking or streaming environment, often made from aluminium foil or parchment paper
- rouget en papillote.
- red mullet cooked in a packet.
- Meal cooked in a packet, envelope, or pouch, often made from aluminium foil or parchment paper
- papillotes de veau.
- cooking packets of veal.
- (hair styling) a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl
- Mettre des papillotes sur la tête.
- Put some curling papers on your head.
- curly hair obtained with this method; ringlets
- 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)
- (in particular) curly sideburns, payot
- 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].
- Vividly coloured paper wrap for crackers and other sweets.
- Bonbon enveloppé dans sa papillote.
- Sweet wrapped in its wrapper.
- sweet wrapped with a papillote.
- 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...
Verb
papillote
- first-person singular present indicative of papilloter
- third-person singular present indicative of papilloter
- first-person singular present subjunctive of papilloter
- third-person singular present subjunctive of papilloter
- second-person singular imperative of papilloter
Synonyms
- (hair styling) anglaises
Derived terms
Further reading
- “papillote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
Etymology
From Latin pāpiliō (compare French papillon, with the same meaning).
Noun
papillote f (plural papillotes)
Derived terms
- noeud papillote (“bowtie”, literally “butterfly knot”)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from French papillote.
Pronunciation
Noun
papillote f (plural papillotes)
Further reading
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