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• rissole
  rissole

  noun

  a small pastry, often in turnover form, filled with a mixture containing meat or fish and usually fried in deep fat.
• rissolé
  rissolé

  adjective

  (of foods) browned in deep fat.

rissole

¹ American  

[ri-sohl, ris-ohl, ree-sawl] / rɪˈsoʊl, ˈrɪs oʊl, riˈsɔl /

noun

• rissoles
  plural

1. a small pastry, often in turnover form, filled with a mixture containing meat or fish and usually fried in deep fat.

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rissolé ² American  

[ris-uh-lee, ris-uh-lay, ree-saw-lay] / ˈrɪs ə li, ˌrɪs əˈleɪ, ri sɔˈleɪ /

adjective

1. (of foods) browned in deep fat.

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rissole British  

/ ˈrɪsəʊl /

noun

1. a mixture of minced cooked meat coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried Compare croquette

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• rissoles
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of rissole¹

1700–10; < French; Middle French roissole, rousole, perhaps < Vulgar Latin *russeola (feminine adj.) reddish

Origin of rissolé²

< French, past participle of rissoler to brown, derivative of rissole rissole

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Example Sentences

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rissole rissoles

But it's easier to swallow that frown, grab a rissole and join in.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2013

A well-cooked rissole, brought pleasantly to you, is good eating.

From The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope

My rissole lore is a poor asset in comparison.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 23, 1919 by Various

And when Leonore sent him a look and a smile, and held up the wrist, so as to show the pearl bracelet, Peter suddenly thought what a delicious rissole he was eating.

From The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford

Mrs. Gresley would have liked to sit in the school-room when lessons were over, but Fräulein had been so distant at luncheon about a rissole that she had not the courage to go in.

From Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

We put odd scraps of fish into rissoles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mix ingredients together; mould into rissoles, dust with flour and fry in 'Nutter.'

From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon

Amphillis made no answer, but finished her rissoles in silence, and helped herself to a small pound-cake.

From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey

Press it firmly down, and with a paste stamp two inches wide cut the rissoles, keeping the mince balls exactly in the centre of each.

From Dressed Game and Poultry à la Mode by Harriet A. de Salis

At supper they served sterlet, chicken rissoles, and stewed fruit; the wines were expensive French wines.

From The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Constance Garnett

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