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Definition of paupiette - 2 dictionary results

pau⋅piette

  [poh-pyet]
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–noun, plural -piettes  [-pyets; Fr. -pyet] . French Cookery.
bird (def. 6).
Origin:
1885–90; earlier po(u)piette, prob. deriv. of MF poulpe fleshy part of the body or of an animal, OF polpe < L pulpa pulp; see -ette
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pau·piette   (pō-pyět')   
n.  A thin slice of meat or fish wrapped around a forcemeat or vegetable filling.

[French, probably from obsolete poulpe, fleshy part, from Old French polpe, from Latin pulpa.]
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