Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small, pastry-enclosed croquette of finely minced meat or fish, usually fried in deep fat.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In cookery, an entrée consisting of meat or fish compounded with bread-crumbs and yolk of eggs, all wrapped in a fine puff-paste, so as to resemble a sausage, and fried.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Cookery) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A ball of meat covered in pastry, which has been fried.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *russeola, reddish paste, from Late Latin, feminine of russeolus, reddish, from Latin russus, red; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • There was a mysterious kind of rissole that began to appear on the School menu on Mondays, and Chips called it abhorrendum — "meat to be abhorred."

    Goodbye, Mr Chips Hilton, James, 1900-1954 1938

  • Sandy - re Channa daal instead of chickpeas - I have no idea, but a rissole is a rissole, isn’t it?

    Recipe of the Day: Falafel - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • As for "faggots" = "kind of rissole", this is almost like pasties.

    Language Log 2009

  • _ Good cheer.] [Footnote 372: A play upon the double meaning of _a denajo_, which signifies also "for money."] [Footnote 373: A kind of rissole made of eggs, sweet herbs and cheese.] [Footnote 374: _Vernaccia_, a kind of rich white wine like Malmsey.]

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • Sir havock is not a big fan of anything not immediately identifieable as a steak, chop, rissole or sausage.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » This way ladies, if you would care to follow me. 2010

  • Make sure you try the laver bread with your full cooked breakfast (confusingly not bread at all - it's a sort of seaweed and oat rissole that is much, much tastier than it sounds).

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  • Make sure you try the laver bread with your full cooked breakfast (confusingly not bread at all - it's a sort of seaweed and oat rissole that is much, much tastier than it sounds).

    Wales lili 2009

  • To some extent, the heavily self-parodic aspects of the enterprise - at one point he reports on treating Tony Blair to a disquisition on the Shia, whom he compared to 'nut-rissole artists' - make the crazy-uncle outbursts less alarming.

    An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs. 2008

  • The rissole-thermograph worked very well as far as - 40º C., but then it gave up.

    The South Pole~ Preparing for Winter 2009

  • Simon Concannon - Isn't concannon that Irish culinary favourite comprising minced hairy bacon, cabbage and spuds, sometimes served as a rissole?

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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  • "'Makes a nice luncheon dish,' say so many old cookery books, especially when talking of rissoles or stuffed marrow, or some other silk purse carefully hewn from a sow's ear."

    Eating for England by Nigel Slater, p 194

    March 24, 2010

  • "The sawdust that was spread neatly over the floor each morning was by now kicked into heaps and soaked by the splashings of wine. And where, scattered about the floor, little blobs of fat had been rolled or trodden in, the sawdust stuck to them giving them the appearance of rissoles." From Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.

    February 12, 2011