girolle

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French girolle.

Noun

girolle (plural girolles)

  1. 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”.

French

des girolles

Alternative forms

  • girole

Etymology

From Latin gȳrus (circle) + -ole.

Noun

girolle f (plural girolles)

  1. chanterelle (mushroom)

Further reading

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