Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A frilled paper cover used to decorate the bone end of a cooked chop or cutlet.
- noun An oiled paper or foil wrapper in which certain foods are baked.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A curl-paper: so called because appearing like a butterfly on the head.
- noun Folded oiled paper on which chops, etc., are prepared and sometimes served.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small bit of
foil , which iswrapped around food during cooking - noun hair styling a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The method behind cooking en papillote is to put some or all of the components of a meal into a wrapped packet of some sort — pastry dough, banana or bamboo leaves, aluminium foil, wax paper, or whatever you’ve got that’s oven-safe.
Cook En Papillote For Efficient, Healthy Meals | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Cooking “en papillote”, or in wrapped packets, is healthy and fairly foolproof.
Cook En Papillote For Efficient, Healthy Meals | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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This week, it was shutome Hawaii poll-caught swordfish, a "Best Choice" in papillote with Swiss chard, yum!
Mindy Pennybacker: Stop Drug-Resisant Staph From Spoiling Your Holiday Roast! Mindy Pennybacker 2011
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This week, it was shutome Hawaii poll-caught swordfish, a "Best Choice" in papillote with Swiss chard, yum!
Mindy Pennybacker: Stop Drug-Resisant Staph From Spoiling Your Holiday Roast! Mindy Pennybacker 2011
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This week, it was shutome Hawaii poll-caught swordfish, a "Best Choice" in papillote with Swiss chard, yum!
Mindy Pennybacker: Stop Drug-Resisant Staph From Spoiling Your Holiday Roast! Mindy Pennybacker 2011
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With no fish allergies, it seemed like the no-brainer of the day was to serve cod en papillote.
Elizabeth Gordon: A Gluten, Dairy, Soy, Nut, Egg and Mess-Free Dinner Elizabeth Gordon 2011
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Preparation: Broiled, saut é ed, baked in parchment paper (en papillote).
The New School 2010
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Fresh cèpes are wrapped like gifts in a cellophane papillote and cooked in tiny iron skillets.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
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With no fish allergies, it seemed like the no-brainer of the day was to serve cod en papillote.
Elizabeth Gordon: A Gluten, Dairy, Soy, Nut, Egg and Mess-Free Dinner Elizabeth Gordon 2011
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Fresh cèpes are wrapped like gifts in a cellophane papillote and cooked in tiny iron skillets.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices Lisa Abend 2011
mialuthien commented on the word papillote
papillote – 1) a greased paper wrapper in which food (as meat or fish) is cooked; 2) hist. a small triangular piece of paper used as a curl-paper for damp hair
July 26, 2008
dontcry commented on the word papillote
Mmmm!
July 26, 2008