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plural papillotes
(cooking) A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking. quotations examples
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.
2018, Michelle Lewin, Dr. Samar Yorde, The Hot Body Diet […] , Penguin
(hair styling, often in the plural) A small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl; a curly lock. quotations examples
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, […], page 54
"Good heavens, what has happened!" thought Glorvina, trembling with all the papillotes.
1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XLIII, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848