Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A light pastry shell filled with a ragout of meat or fish.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sort of raised pie consisting of a delicate preparation of meat, fowl, or fish inclosed in a case of rich light puffpaste.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Cookery) A light puff paste, with a raised border, filled, after baking, usually with a ragout of fowl, game, or fish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small
canapé - circular pieces ofpuff pastry with a small hole which accommodates various fillings, such as mushrooms, prawns, fruit, cheese, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun puff paste shell filled with a savory meat mixture usually with a sauce
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This large pastry shell is called vol-au-vent, she said pedantically.
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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This large pastry shell is called vol-au-vent, she said pedantically.
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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It is difficult to imagine Evgeny son of Alexander Lebedev delicately nibbling on a vol-au-vent in a supermarket cafeteria.
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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Available in two sizes, these pre-cut discs of pastry bake up into vol-au-vent (hollow, cylinders of puff pastry) that can be treated like tart shells and filled with a variety of hot and cold, savory and sweet fillings.
Pepperidge Farms Puff Pastry Shells, reviewed | Baking Bites 2009
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Ben hasn't revealed what they bought, but I'm guessing Jus-Rol vol-au-vent pastry, Primula cheese, bacon bits and conditioner for Kate's lovely hair, which uni friends now remember as the loveliest, most fragrant hair ever grown out of a head in the whole of Christendom.
Grace Dent's TV OD: The Royal Wedding Grace Dent 2010
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In the Lorraine Show studio last week, TV chef Ed Baines is mashing up spready cheese and bacon bits before stuffing it in ready-roll vol-au-vent cases.
Grace Dent's TV OD: The Royal Wedding Grace Dent 2010
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Another dish listed on the menu is vol-au-vent, the filled puff pastry shells that became the Mexican bolovanes.
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada 2005
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Another dish listed on the menu is vol-au-vent, the filled puff pastry shells that became the Mexican bolovanes.
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada 2005
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Another dish listed on the menu is vol-au-vent, the filled puff pastry shells that became the Mexican bolovanes.
The French Influence On Mexican Cooking: La Comida Afrancescada 2005
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I don't know the exact difference between them, but I think vol-au-vent refers to the puff pastry bowl/presentation itself while bouchée à la reine refers to the entire dish/specific recipe for this Alsacian specialty.
Archive 2006-12-01 Etienne 2006
isoglossian commented on the word vol-au-vent
I bet the most famous quotation about this word appeared in chapter 6 of <Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows>, when Harry said to Ginny, "Someone else might kill off Voldemort while she(Mrs Weasley)’s holding us here making vol-au-vents?"
May 11, 2009
pikachu commented on the word vol-au-vent
i agree with isoglossian! that's why i looked it up at least.
February 23, 2011