orangette

plural orangettes

1. A candied orange peel, usually covered in dark or milk chocolate.

   I’d also bought a bag of chocolate-dipped orangettes from Chocolaterie Courtin, my favorite chocolate shop in the world.

   2016, Danielle Trussoni, “Pitch”, in The Fortress: A Love Story, New York, N.Y.: Dey St., →ISBN

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   Especially around the Christmas holidays, I often make candied orange, lemon, or grapefruit peels to give to friends. Sometimes I partially dip the candied orange peels, called orangette, into melted chocolate to serve as an after-dinner treat.

   [2008, Jacques Pépin, “Grapefruit Suprémes”, in More Fast Food My Way, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →ISBN

   Orangettes are strips of candied orange. […] For an extra 8 calories per orangette, you could dip one half of the orangette in sugar and the other half in melted dark chocolate.

   2011, Harry Eastwood, “Orangettes For Grandpa”, in The Skinny French Kitchen: 100 Light and Delightful French Favourites, London: Bantam Press, →ISBN

   To ‘make’ plain chocolate, I recommend adding patchouli; for a ganache, a trace of civet; for ‘orangette’,⁷ orange zest; for an After Eight, spearmint; and for the smell of cocoa powder, concrete of iris.

   2012, Jean-Claude Ellena, translated by Adriana Hunter, “Chocolate”, in The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur, New York, N.Y.: Rizzoli Ex Libris, →ISBN

   Orangettes can be served as they are at this stage, or coated in chocolate. If you wish to make chocolate orangettes, break the chocolate into chunks and melt in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water.

   2019, Caroline Rimbert Craig, “Orangettes”, in Provence: The Cookbook: Recipes from the French Mediterranean, London: Kyle Books, →ISBN

   One of the many treats you will always see in a French chocolatier is the beloved orangette, a candied orange peel that’s been dipped in dark or milk chocolate.

   2022, Frank Adrian Barron, “Gâteau Orangette”, in Sweet Paris: Seasonal Recipes from an American Baker in France, New York, N.Y.: Harper Design, →ISBN

plural orangettes

1. rarefictionAn orange-haired person, especially a woman.

   Definitely not Los Angeles -- where brunettes, noirettes, orangettes and Germanic blondes seem to thrive.

   1997 June 20, Mike Jittlov, “Marry a Moviestar - for FREE!!”, in alt.personals (Usenet), archived from the original on 28 Jan 2026

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   [Kim] Barickman went to the Empress Beauty Salon, 725 W. Ninth. after hours Thursday and had Judy Ross of 2123 Norman turn him from a brunette to an orangette.

   1977 December 23, “Call him ‘Crusher’”, in The Pueblo Chieftain, volume 106, number 206, Pueblo, Colo., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1B, column 1

   We’ve seen Miss Pennsylvania GiGi Gordon, the blonde. We’ve seen GiGi, the sun-streaked blonde. What most of us missed this summer was GiGi, the greenette. And not many got to see what pageant officials witnessed on camera, GiGi, the orangette.

   1996 September 8, Susan Ruiz Patton, “Miss Pa. finds life as a blonde a bit too colorful”, in The Morning Call, number 37,958, Allentown, Pa.: The Morning Call Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page E1, column 4