papillote
See also: papilloté
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French papillote.
Noun edit
papillote (plural papillotes)
- (cooking) A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
- cooked en papillote
- (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
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54:
- Emily Arundel stood by the dressing-table. The last curl of her dark hair had received its last braid of pearls; the professor of papillotes had decided, and she quite agreed with him, that à la Calypso best suited with her Grecian style of feature.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XLIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- "Good heavens, what has happened!" thought Glorvina, trembling with all the papillotes.
See also edit
References edit
- “papillote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “papillote”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pa.pi.jɔt/
- Homophones: papillotent, papillotes
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Etymology 1 edit
From papillon (“butterfly”) with a change of suffix to -ote.
Noun edit
papillote f (plural papillotes)
- (cooking) papillote (wrapper for food during cooking)
- rouget en papillote ― red mullet cooked in a packet
- (by extension) dish prepared in such a way
- papillotes de veau ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (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)
- (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)
- (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].
- colored (paper) wrapper for sweets; the sweets themselves
- bonbon enveloppé dans sa papillote ― sweet 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 edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
papillote
- inflection of papilloter:
Further reading edit
- “papillote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman edit
Etymology edit
From Latin pāpiliō (compare French papillon, with the same meaning).
Noun edit
papillote f (plural papillotes)
Derived terms edit
- noeud papillote (“bowtie”, literally “butterfly knot”)
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French papillote.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ote
- Syllabification: pa‧pi‧llo‧te
Noun edit
papillote f or m (plural papillotes)
Further reading edit
- “papillote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014