orangette

orangette noun: a candied orange peel, usually covered in dark or milk chocolate.

Noun (1)

orangette (plural orangettes)

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

orangette (plural orangettes)

(rare) An orange-haired person, especially a woman.
- [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

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:
Orangettes can be served as they are at this stage, or coated in chocolate.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...
But if we feel like chocolate, we’ll have some but will make sure it’s really good quality like an orangette from Pierre Hermé, not a Kit Kat.2023 February 14, Lucia Ferrari, quoting Camille Joly, “Why do French women over 50 look so good?”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily...

plural	orangettes

From French orangette. By surface analysis, orange + -ette (diminutive suffix).

From orange + -ette (“a person, especially a woman, with the specified hair color”), after brunette.

What does orangette mean?: Orangette means a candied orange peel, usually covered in dark or milk chocolate.
How do you use orangette in a sentence?: I’d also bought a bag of chocolate-dipped orangettes from Chocolaterie Courtin, my favorite chocolate shop in the world.
What part of speech is orangette?: Orangette is a noun.
What is the plural of orangette?: The plural of orangette is orangettes.

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