papillote

Borrowed from French papillote.

papillote (plural papillotes)

1. (cooking) A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.

   cooked en papillote

   • 2018, Michelle Lewin, Dr. Samar Yorde, The Hot Body Diet ‎, 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

   • 1831, L E 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.

• en-papillote

• “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.

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• IPA^(key): /pa.pi.jɔt/
• Homophones: papillotent, papillotes

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

papillote f (plural papillotes)

1. (cooking) papillote (wrapper for food during cooking)

   rouget en papillote ― red 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" .

6. 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.

• papilloter

• → English: papillote
• → Spanish: papillote

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

papillote

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

• “papillote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

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

papillote f (plural papillotes)

1. (Jersey) butterfly

• noeud papillote (“bowtie”, literally “butterfly knot”)

Borrowed from French papillote.

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

papillote f or m (plural papillotes)

1. papillote

• “papillote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10