Definitions for vol-au-vent

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Spelling: [vaw-loh-vahn]
IPA: /vɔ loʊˈvɑ̃/

Vol-Au-Vent is a 11 letter English word.

You can make 309 anagrams from letters in vol-au-vent (--aelnotuvv).

Definitions for vol-au-vent

noun

  1. a large shell of light, flaky pastry for filling with vegetable, fish, or meat mixtures, usually with a sauce.

Origin of vol-au-vent

1820-30; French: literally, flight on the wind

Examples for vol-au-vent

I didn't envy them that vol-au-vent of yours, Ellen, good as it smelt.

Yes, you can call it vol-au-vent if you like, but don't stick me extra for the name; I would just as lief eat it in English.

The amount given in this receipt makes about six pt shells or one vol-au-vent case.

The puff paste is used for paté shells and vol-au-vent cake and for light pastries of all kinds.

Apple saut with butter, in this way may be served hot in the vol-au-vent.

Her husband would make us a vol-au-vent, for which he had no equal.

This vol-au-vent is delicious, and so is this filet saut, with madeira and truffles.

Monsieur Frulus, a taste of vol-au-vent for Mademoiselle de la Pincerie.

After the fish came a vol-au-vent, then a roast fowl, a salad, French beans with a Pithiviers lark-pie.

That the discovery of what it is you eat in a vol-au-vent at a "diner trois francs," will please but not surprise you.

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