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‖ vol-au-vent|vɔlovɑ̃|
[F., lit. ‘flight in the wind’.]
A kind of raised pie, formed of a light puff paste filled with meat, fish, or the like.
1828Lytton Pelham I. xxiv, The..landlady,..regaled him with cold vol-au-vent, and a glass of Curaçoa. Ibid. To think she should serve me so cruelly, after I had eaten so plentifully of the vol-au-vent. 1846A. Soyer Cookery 24 Serve [the sauce] in a vol-au-vent or wherever directed. 1899Doyle Duet (1909) 90/1 Oyster patties or oyster vol-au-vents. |