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papillote

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Borrowed from French papillote.

noun papillotes

A small piece of aluminum foil or parchment paper, wrapped around food during cooking. cooked en papillote
in plural, often 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.
Similar: curlpaper

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@misc{papillote_2026,
  title = {papillote},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/papillote},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}