# papillote
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French papillote.

### Noun

papillote (plural papillotes)
* (cooking) A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.
    cooked en papillote
** 2018, Michelle Lewin, Dr. Samar Yorde, The Hot Body Diet […] ‎, Penguin, →ISBN: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.
* (hair styling, often in the plural) A small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl; a curly lock.
    Synonym: curlpaper
** 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 54: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.
** 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XLIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:"Good heavens, what has happened!" thought Glorvina, trembling with all the papillotes.

#### See also

* en-papillote

### References

* “papillote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “papillote”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* popliteal

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pa.pi.jɔt/
* Homophones: papillotent, papillotes
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From papillon (“butterfly”) with a change of suffix to -ote.

#### Noun

papillote f (plural papillotes)
* (cooking) papillote (wrapper for food during cooking)
    rouget en papillote ― red mullet cooked in a packet
* (by extension) dish prepared in such a way
    papillotes de veau ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* (hair styling) papillote, curlpaper (small piece of paper used to make curled hair)
    Synonym: anglaise
    Mettre des papillotes sur la tête. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
* (by extension) curly hair obtained with this method; ringlet
    Elle était nu-tête, de longues papillotes à l’anglaise, d’un blond cendré, tombaient avec une grâce exquise sur ses épaules décolletées.(please add an English translation of this usage example)
* (in particular) curly sideburns, peot
    Les papillotes traditionnelles des Juifs orthodoxes s’appellent les "péoths" ou "peyots".The traditional sideburns of Orthodox Jews are called "payot" ["péoths" or "peyots" in French].
* colored (paper) wrapper for sweets; the sweets themselves
    bonbon enveloppé dans sa papillote ― sweet wrapped in its wrapper
    Elle nous donnait en guise d’étrennes, à chacun, une papillote de chocolat.She gave us each as a gift a wrapped piece of chocolate.

##### Derived terms

* papilloter

##### Descendants

* → English: papillote
* → Spanish: papillote

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

papillote
* inflection of papilloter:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “papillote”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Norman
### Etymology

From Latin pāpiliō (compare French papillon, with the same meaning).

### Noun

papillote f (plural papillotes)
* (Jersey) butterfly

#### Derived terms

* noeud papillote (“bowtie”, literally “butterfly knot”)

## Spanish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French papillote.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /papiˈʝote/ [pa.piˈʝo.t̪e]
* IPA: (most of Spain and Latin America) /papiˈʝote/ [pa.piˈʝo.t̪e]
* IPA: (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Philippines) /papiˈʎote/ [pa.piˈʎo.t̪e]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /papiˈʃote/ [pa.piˈʃo.t̪e]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /papiˈʒote/ [pa.piˈʒo.t̪e]
* Rhymes: -ote
* Syllabification: pa‧pi‧llo‧te

### Noun

papillote f or m (plural papillotes)
* papillote

### Further reading

* “papillote”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014