rissole

[ri-sohl, ris-ohl; French ree-sawl]

noun, plural ris·soles [ri-sohlz, ris-ohlz; French ree-sawl] /rɪˈsoʊlz, ˈrɪs oʊlz; French riˈsɔl/.

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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Origin of rissole

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

rissolé

[ris-uh-lee, ris-uh-ley; French ree-saw-ley]

adjective

(of foods) browned in deep fat.

Origin of rissolé

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

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Examples from the Web for rissole

Remove to hot-platter, garnish with rissole potatoes, and pass mint jelly with them.
The Story of Crisco|Marion Harris Neil
With the aid of my Cookery Course notes I can differentiate between no fewer than thirty-four different types of rissole.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 23, 1919|Various
Rissole:—Rich mince of meat or fish rolled in thin pastry and fried.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887)|Mrs. F.L. Gillette
They were fond of pounding meats of different kinds, such as pork and poultry, and mixing them in a kind of rissole.
London|Walter Besant

Rations having failed to arrive, each man was given a rissole and a packet of chewing-gum.
500 of the Best Cockney War Stories|Various

British Dictionary definitions for rissole

rissole

noun

a mixture of minced cooked meat coated in egg and breadcrumbs and friedCompare croquette

Word Origin for rissole

C18: from French, probably ultimately from Latin russus red; see russet

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