papillote

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noun

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

“cooked en papillote”

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Meanings

nounpapillote (plural papillotes)

plural papillotes

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

    cooked en papillote

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    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.

    2018, Michelle Lewin, Dr. Samar Yorde, The Hot Body Diet […] , Penguin, →ISBN
  2. in pluraloftenhair stylingA small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl.

    "Good heavens, what has happened!" thought Glorvina, trembling with all the papillotes.

    1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XLIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
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    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.

    1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54

    Synonyms: curlpaper

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl.

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Origin

  1. Frenchpapillote
  2. Englishpapillote

Borrowed from French papillote.

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papillote. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/papillote

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