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orangettes

orangettes is the plural of orangette.

Meaning of orangette

Noun (1)

orangette (plural orangettes)

  1. 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

Noun (2)

orangette (plural orangettes)

  1. (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

Questions about orangettes

What is orangettes the plural of?
Orangettes is the plural of orangette.

Words near orangettes in the dictionary

  1. orangetinis
  2. orangetip
  3. orangetips
  4. Orangetown
  5. orangette
  6. orangettes
  7. Orangevale
  8. Orangeville
  9. Orangewoman
  10. Orangewomen
  11. orangewood

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