vol-au-vent

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French vol-au-vent (windblown, literally flight in the wind).

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Noun

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vol-au-vent (plural vol-au-vent or vol-au-vents or vols-au-vent)

  1. A small circular piece of puff pastry with a hole for various fillings, such as mushrooms, prawns, fruit, cheese, etc.
    • 2007 March 13, Ashley Pharoah, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 4:
      Ray Carling: Some nicely chilled Blue Nun and some vol-au-vents? This is Manc the Knife, is it?...
      Chris Skelton: What's a vol-au-vent?...
      Ray: It's a puff pastry shell filled with a savory meat mixture...
      Chris: You mean a pie, then?
    • 2009, Ruth Hamilton, The Reading Room, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 342:
      A few offered to come for me, but they’re all up to their eyes in flans and vols-au-vent and God knows what else, so I told them I’d made my own arrangements.
    • 2016, Cancún & the Riviera Maya with Cozumel & the Best of the Yucatán, 4th edition, Fodor’s Travel, →ISBN, page 147:
      Classic bistro fare—including quiche Lorraine and vols-au-vent—make for a light lunch comme il faut.
    • 2016, James Swallow, Nomad, Zaffre Publishing, →ISBN, page 237:
      Predictably, the result was an immediate surge of panic as the embassy’s guests discarded their vols-au-vent and sought to put as much distance as they could between the outbreak of ‘fire’ and themselves.
    • 2018 January 9, Martin Daubney, “Pale, male and stale: is being a white man now bad for your career?”, in The Telegraph[1]:
      Want to get heads rotating at your next dinner party or drinks get-together? Try tabling the morsel, “has there ever been a worse time to be a middle-aged white man in the world of work?” and watch the vol-au-vents fly.

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /vɔ.lo.vɑ̃/
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Noun

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vol-au-vent m (plural vols-au-vent)

  1. vol-au-vent (puff pastry with a hole)
    Synonyms: bouchée, timbale

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: vol-au-vent
  • Italian: vol-au-vent
  • Swedish: volauvent

Further reading

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Italian

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from French vol-au-vent.

Noun

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vol-au-vent m (invariable)

  1. vol-au-vent

Further reading

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  • vol-au-vent in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana