papillote

Borrowed from French papillote.

papillote (plural papillotes)

1. (cooking) A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
2. (hair styling) A small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl.

• (hair styling): curl paper, curlpaper, curling paper

• papillote in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• popliteal

From papillon with a change of suffix to -ote.

• IPA^(key): /pa.pi.jɔt/

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papillote f (plural papillotes)

1. Wrapper or packet for food during cooking, trapping steam to provide a most cooking or streaming environment, often made from aluminium foil or parchment paper

   rouget en papillote.

   red mullet cooked in a packet.

   1. Meal cooked in a packet, envelope, or pouch, often made from aluminium foil or parchment paper

      papillotes de veau.

      cooking packets of veal.

2. (hair styling) a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl

   Mettre des papillotes sur la tête.

   Put some curling papers on your head.

   1. curly hair obtained with this method; ringlets

      Elle était nu-tête, de longues papillotes à l'anglaise, d'un blond cendré, tombaient avec une grâce exquise sur ses épaules décolletées.

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   2. (in particular) curly sideburns, payot

      Les papillotes traditionnelles des Juifs orthodoxes s'appellent les "péoths" ou "peyots".

      The traditional sideburns of Orthodox Jews are called "payot" ["péoths" or "peyots" in French].

3. Vividly coloured paper wrap for crackers and other sweets.

   Bonbon enveloppé dans sa papillote.

   Sweet wrapped in its wrapper.

   1. sweet wrapped with a papillote.

      Elle nous donnait en guise d'étrennes, à chacun, une papillote de chocolat...

      She gave us each as a gift a wrapped piece of chocolate...

papillote

1. first-person singular present indicative of papilloter
2. third-person singular present indicative of papilloter
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of papilloter
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of papilloter
5. second-person singular imperative of papilloter

• (hair styling) anglaises

• papilloter

• “papillote” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin pāpiliō (compare French papillon, with the same meaning).

papillote f (plural papillotes)

1. (Jersey) butterfly

• noeud papillote (“bowtie”, literally “butterfly knot”)

Borrowed from French papillote.

• (Castilian) IPA^(key): /papiˈʎote/, [papiˈʎot̪e]
• (Latin America) IPA^(key): /papiˈɟ͡ʝote/, [papiˈʝot̪e]

papillote f (plural papillotes)

1. papillote

• “papillote” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.