Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small, pastry-enclosed croquette of a minced meat or fish, usually fried in deep fat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In cookery, an entrée consisting of meat or fish compounded with bread-crumbs and yolk of eggs, all wrapped in a fine puff-paste, so as to resemble a sausage, and fried.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Cookery) A small ball of rich minced meat or fish, covered with pastry and fried.
WordNet 3.0
- n. minced cooked meat or fish coated in egg and breadcrumbs and fried in deep fat
Etymologies
- French, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *russeola, reddish paste, from Late Latin, feminine of russeolus, reddish, from Latin russus, red; see reudh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“There was a mysterious kind of rissole that began to appear on the School menu on Mondays, and Chips called it abhorrendum — "meat to be abhorred.”
“Sandy - re Channa daal instead of chickpeas - I have no idea, but a rissole is a rissole, isn’t it?”
“As for "faggots" = "kind of rissole", this is almost like pasties.”
“_ Good cheer.] [Footnote 372: A play upon the double meaning of _a denajo_, which signifies also "for money."] [Footnote 373: A kind of rissole made of eggs, sweet herbs and cheese.] [Footnote 374: _Vernaccia_, a kind of rich white wine like Malmsey.]”
“Sir havock is not a big fan of anything not immediately identifieable as a steak, chop, rissole or sausage.”
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“Make sure you try the laver bread with your full cooked breakfast (confusingly not bread at all - it's a sort of seaweed and oat rissole that is much, much tastier than it sounds).”
“To some extent, the heavily self-parodic aspects of the enterprise - at one point he reports on treating Tony Blair to a disquisition on the Shia, whom he compared to 'nut-rissole artists' - make the crazy-uncle outbursts less alarming.”
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“The rissole-thermograph worked very well as far as - 40º C., but then it gave up.”
“Simon Concannon - Isn't concannon that Irish culinary favourite comprising minced hairy bacon, cabbage and spuds, sometimes served as a rissole?”
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“I never know the difference between a rissole and a croquette, and have plumped for calling these rissoles.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rissole’.
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O! Timballo
for the same
tea-poy, pooking fork, ait, eyot, quodlibet, milk leg, tussie-mussie, calash, gueules, caitiff, bindery, demi-rep and 224 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Words 2011
New words that I've read in 2011
mendacity, drogue, caisson, fakement, abattoir, specious, barbican, inimical, argot, wot, sotto voce, nonce and 76 more...
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Casey "The sawdust that was spread neatly over the floor each morning was by now kicked into heaps and soaked by the splashings of wine. And where, scattered about the floor, little blobs of fat had been rolled or trodden in, the sawdust stuck to them giving them the appearance of rissoles." From Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake. Feb 12, 2011
knitandpurl "'Makes a nice luncheon dish,' say so many old cookery books, especially when talking of rissoles or stuffed marrow, or some other silk purse carefully hewn from a sow's ear."
Eating for England by Nigel Slater, p 194 Mar 24, 2010