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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

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

"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

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

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

From The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope

We put odd scraps of fish into rissoles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Somewhere towards eleven o'clock there is an interval, and the boys go home for lunch or buy something from the seller of rissoles or sausages in the street.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker

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

Most of the rissoles, toasts, &c., given in the earlier part of the book are suited for breakfast dishes, but we may add a few more.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill

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

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