orangette means A candied orange peel, usually covered in dark or milk chocolate.
Etymology
From French orangette. By surface analysis, orange + -ette (diminutive suffix).
noun
- A candied orange peel, usually covered in dark or milk chocolate.“Especially around the Christmas holidays, I often make candied orange, lemon, or grapefruit peels to give to friends. Sometimes I partially dip the candied orange peels, called orangette, into melted chocolate to serve as an after-dinner treat.”
- An orange-haired person, especially a woman.“[Kim] Barickman went to the Empress Beauty Salon, 725 W. Ninth. after hours Thursday and had Judy Ross of 2123 Norman turn him from a brunette to an orangette.”