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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

Inflected Forms

noun

• 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

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

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2013

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

From The Story of Crisco by Neil, Marion Harris

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 Ford, Paul Leicester

With the aid of my Cookery Course notes I can differentiate between no fewer than thirty-four different types of rissole.

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

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

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