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papillotes

papillotes is the plural of papillote.

Meaning of papillote

Noun

papillote (plural papillotes)

  1. A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
    • cooked en papillote
  2. (in plural, often, hair styling) A small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl.
    • 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

Questions about papillotes

What is papillotes the plural of?
Papillotes is the plural of papillote.

Words near papillotes in the dictionary

  1. papillorenal
  2. papillorenal syndrome
  3. papillose
  4. papillosity
  5. papillote
  6. papillotes
  7. papillotome
  8. papillotomes
  9. papillotomies
  10. papillotomy
  11. papillotubular

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