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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-ley, ree-saw-ley] / 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

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

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

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

Remove to hot-platter, garnish with rissole potatoes, and pass mint jelly with them.

From The Story of Crisco by Marion Harris Neil

"No; that is inorganic rissole, a sort of protoplasm out of which rissoles are developed."

From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

My rissole lore is a poor asset in comparison.

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

We put odd scraps of fish into rissoles.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

For Homer never puts rissoles, or forcemeat, or cheesecakes, or omelettes before his princes, but meat such as was calculated to make them vigorous in body and mind.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

The bears were cut up and made into steaks, rissoles, roasts, etc.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

They dilated to Agassiz and myself about a great discovery they had made, namely, that excellent rissoles could be made of bully beef and ground biscuits.

From The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" by George Davidson