papillote
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.25 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
Borrowed from French papillote.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: papillote