girolle
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French girolle.
Noun
girolle (plural girolles)
- chanterelle (mushroom)
- 2015 November 14, Yotam Ottolenghi, “Shroom for manoeuvre: Yotam Ottolenghi’s mushroom recipes”, in The Guardian:
- The dominance of the squeaky-clean white button has given way to a far wider range: brown chestnuts and flat-capped portobellos, and pearly-white oysters, which really do look a bit like the oyster shells they’re named after, carotene-orange girolles, flavour-bomb dried shiitake and porcini, or delicate enoki, with their long, skinny legs and tiny caps, which are often sold in packages with buna and shiro shimejis and labelled “exotic”.
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French
des girolles
Alternative forms
- girole
Etymology
From Latin gȳrus (“circle”) + -ole, or possibly an adaptation of Old Occitan giroilla, from a diminutive of gir, from the same Latin root.
Pronunciation
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Noun
girolle f (plural girolles)
- chanterelle (mushroom)
Further reading
- “girolle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.