Meaning of papillote | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
2. A small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl.
   in-plural, often

Equivalents

Examples

“cooked en papillote”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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