papillote means A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.
noun
- A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking.“cooked en papillote”
- A small piece of paper used to roll up hair to make it curl.“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.”